2.1.125+: lockups, scheduler

Jim Bray (jb@as220.org)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:00:41 -0500 (EST)


This may be an init bug of some sort, but it seems like other people
are running into something like this.

System (ide,pci,up,ppp) semi-locks occasionally on leaving X, and
at other times. System is spinning in scheduler code. Running processes
are xinit, bash, and two copies of init. Current alternates between
them. No disk activity, plenty of free mem. After trying to kill them,
signals for procs listed above are '1 00...4101'. Finally, with Sysrq
killall procs, system hangs.

Not reproducible. Occurs infrequently. Currently running 2.1.129. I
am guessing that I started seeing this by about .126, maybe before.

Behavior seems consistent with some sort of deadlock/race-condition
between the procs in question.

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-Jim	http://as220.org/jb	Software Libre O Morir!

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