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From: Kevin Brosius <cobra@compuserve.com>
To: kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: machine hangs in 2.6 bk latest
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:17:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8F4312.FDCECC3B@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F8B4EC4.2584A2E9@compuserve.com

Kevin Brosius wrote:
> 
> Kevin Brosius wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed a pair of machine hangs today with latest 2.6.0 bk tree.
> > So far, I've been unable to retrieve information from the test machine,
> > as the network is down, console is unresponsive and in power save at the
> > time of the hang.  (I've haven't tried Magic-Sysrq yet.)
> >
> > After reboot, logs are truncated, so no useful information there either.
> >
> > System is base SuSE 8.2, running 2.6.0 bk, pulled today (Sun 16:00 EST
> > or earlier).
> >
> > Dual AMD MP CPUs, with reiserfs main fs on Mylex RAID disks.  2.6 bk
> > kernel from about a week ago was stable on this machine.  I'll try and
> > capture more info.  Any thoughts, please copy my email.
> 
> bk pulls from today behave the same.  The lockup seems to occur while
> using an ssh forwarded X connection and moving a large mozilla window on
> a remote machine.
> 
> The server machine is hard locked.  Alt-Sysrq does not respond at all.

It looks like 

ChangeSet 1.1237.1.117 2003/10/13 16:30:26 torvalds@home.osdl.org
  Revert recent SMP timer changes - they cause deadlocks

resolved this problem.  Thanks Linus! :)

-- 
Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-17  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-12 21:00 machine hangs in 2.6 bk latest Kevin Brosius
2003-10-14  1:17 ` Kevin Brosius
2003-10-17  1:17   ` Kevin Brosius [this message]

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