> I had the pleasure of getting hold of one of these machines
>
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/powerstation/ and
> after some
> tinkering installed 2.6.27-rc3. However, it was way slower and jerkier
> (keyboard input for example would stop processing for up to 2 seconds)
> than the distribution kernel. Network is a bit useless and
> kernel builds
> went from about 4 minutes to about 12 even when built
> locally. I also noted
> with NO_HZ enabled that a soft-lockup would be reported in a
> timer related
> to tg3. The card in question is
>
