Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Johannes Kimmel
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Quinn wrote: I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My com

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dale wrote: > Daniel Quinn wrote: >> >> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe >> I'd >> configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue >> someone >> here has run across in the past so here goes: >> >> My co

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd > configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone > here has run across in the past so here goes: > > My computer is a pretty impressiv

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Daniel Quinn wrote: I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Walker
On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no > change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try. > Suggestions welcome :-( > It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your system

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Kyle Bader
> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd > configured my kernel incorrectly Did this behavior start after a kernel upgrade? If yes, what was the previous kernel version and what version are you running now? -- Kyle

[gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Daniel Quinn
I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box with 2GB of RAM an