booting with the idle=poll kernel parameter
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Wed Sep 5 01:00:13 UTC 2007
On 04Sep2007 18:27, Katalichenka, Sergey <skatalichenka at constantcontact.com> wrote:
| I ma trying to eliminate some stability issues with latest NVIDIA
| drivers. I have found an article which suggested setting idle=poll
| kernel parameter.
|
| I have no idea how to do that. Can some one point me to the right
| direction?
Edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf file. There are lines of the form:
kernel /vmlinuz...
Add idle=poll to the end of those lines.
Or, to try it just as a test instead of permanent:
- boot
- at the grub menu, hit <space> to stop it timing out and proceeding with a
normal boot
- type 'e' to edit the default boot clause
- arrow down to the kernel line, and add idle=poll
- type 'b' to boot that way
This does not edit the grub.conf, just the boot line used that once.
Cheers,
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