Re: Major bootstrap time regression on March 30

[fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

dnovillo wrote:

> [...]
> I rebooted the machine into a new kernel on 2005-03-31
> (2.6.10-1.770_FC3).  The slowdown coincided with the box being
> rebooted into the new kernel:
> [...]
> 2005-03-30		5,704	<-- 2.6.10-1.760_FC3
> 2005-03-31		7,026	<-- 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> [...]
> I'm rebooting the machine into the previous kernel right now to
> see if it changes things.  [...]

Another alternative is to rerun the test of the 2005-03-30 code
snapshot on the new kernel, just once, so we can recalibrate the
subsequent stream of numbers to a controlled reference.


- FChE