Re: Lock of sorts on 2.1.128
Billy Harvey (Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:18:51 -0500
> I upgraded to 2.1.128 last night. Everything went smoothly and it appeared
> to run fine. Over night at some point, things went bad. I was running X
> with Window Maker and xscreensaver (not much else.) I noticed this morning
> that xscreensaver was not displaying anything (black screen.) Pressing
> shift brought me back to X. I could move the windows around, and could type
> in an xterm, but all commands would just sit without processing or exiting.
> On wmload I noticed that the CPU was pinned on 100%. I could
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace out of X. I tried a ps axf on the console, but nothing.
> I tried to log in on another console as root to take a look at things. It
> would log me in but didn't seem to be able to run bash. I'm guessing no new
> processes could run, but running ones could process.
FWIW, me too, with 2.1.127 (for some reason my longer detailed report
never made it to the linux-kernel list). Compiling .128 to test it
now. I also noticed that the active processes in the top window I had
running were all sharing the CPU time almost exactly equally, which
makes me wonder if something has changed in the scheduler to cause this.
Billy
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