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    SubjectRe: 2.1.129 Scheduling Issue?
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    Michael K Vance enscribed thusly:
    > Hello all,

    > Forgive me, I'm just starting the development kernel journey, so haven't quite
    > hashed out yet how a proper bug/anomaly report should be made. I will attempt
    > a description of what happenned, though, in the hope that it is helpful.

    > I was using my standard workspace--Window Manager, Netscape, XEmacs, PPP,
    > rxvt, xscreensaver, some dock applets, etc. I was also (and this would seem to
    > be the anomaly) was building glibc-2.0.103 in the background. It reached a
    > simple 'mv ...' statement, and froze, and I watched my CPU meter (wmmon)
    > slowly climb and climb, till I had about eight load lines. During this time
    > all commands basically froze to a snail's pace... some attempts at 'ps', 'su',
    > and 'ls', and 'top'. My window manager retained complete responsiveness,
    > however. Eventually I was able to get 'top' running, and saw that two
    > instances of 'bash' were taking up 46% and 44% or so of the CPU. I killed
    > both, but then 'init' simply took over 98% or so of the CPU. Killing my window
    > manager (?) seemed to fix all of this.

    2.1.127/128/129 have a problem when compiled with SMP disabled that
    many of us have called the 127/128 flu. A fix did not make it into 2.1.129
    but a fix announced by Linus via E-Mail did make it into Alan Cox's second
    patch set to 2.1.129 (2.1.129ac2). His patch level is currently at ac3.

    Your choices...

    1) Enable SMP (it runs on a single processor and doesn't catch the flu)

    -or-

    2) Get Alan Cox's patch:
    ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.1/patch-2.1.129-ac3.gz

    -or-

    3) Find the E-Mail message Linus sent to the list with the fix.
    (Don't - Alan's got other fixes in his patch).

    -or-

    4) Wait for 2.1.130...

    My compile of 2.1.129ac3 UP has now been running for over a day and
    a half with no sign of "da flu". Yeah!!!

    > Info:

    > 2.1.129 clean with SMP commented out
    > glibc-2.0.7
    > Pentium 233-MMX w/64mb RAM, 80mb swap
    > Originally a Red Hat 5.0 distro, but bears little resemblance to that now...
    >
    > If a config/anything else is helpful, let me know.
    >
    > m.
    >
    > --
    > "Up above aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home, of all
    > these weird creatures who lock up their spirits, drill holes in themselves
    > and live for their secrets. They're all uptight." -Thom Yorke, Radiohead

    Mike
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