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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: events kthread gone crazy
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:24:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040507102406.GE11768@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040507091559.GA1166@fargo>

    Hi David :)

 * Davilín <david@pleyades.net> dixit:
> > > 11569 ?        SW<    0:00  \_ [events/0]
> > > 11570 ?        S<     0:00  |   \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_116_0
> > > 11571 ?        D<     0:00  |       \_ /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> > [Ad infinitum]
> >     It seems that ALSA is screwing something. Maybe you need to
> > recompile ALSA binaries or something like that :???
> I think i know the cause of the problem, i'll test it later. You had
> to be careful with 'install' directives in modprobe.conf to not cause
> circular dependencies, and i think maybe this is the problem. But this
> shouldn't trash the kernel with a lot of processes in D state that 
> cannot be killed...

    No, it shouldn't, obviously. Does not modprobe complain about the
circular dependency?
 
> >     Have you seen where xine is disk sleeping. It should not matter
> > to the sound problem, but...
> I was wrong, xine and aMule had nothing to do with the problem. Just a
> 'modprobe snd' triggers the problem.

    Oh, bad :(( Well, at least seems like you isolated the problem,
it shouldn't be hard to fix :?

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

-- 
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/

      reply	other threads:[~2004-05-07 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06 21:19 events kthread gone crazy David Gómez
2004-05-06 21:34 ` DervishD
2004-05-07  9:16   ` David Gómez
2004-05-07 10:24     ` DervishD [this message]

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