Re: deadlock with 2.6.9

[Chuck Ebbert]

Chris Stromsoe wrote:

> I had a third lockup, this time not related to burning a dvd.  As before, 
> the bulk of the processes that were hung were cron

 Why so many cron processes?  Is this normal on your system, or does it
look like cron keeps spawning processes because it gets no response on the
sockets?

> The box is P3 SMP

 Can you try a uniprocessor kernel?

> syslog logs to a stripe of two mirrors, built with mdadm.

 Get a real RAID controller (3Ware, not some crappy pseudo-RAID junk.)  They are
much more reliable than software RAID.


--Chuck Ebbert  07-Nov-04  00:28:44
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