Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:55:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Hard lockups running X with 2.5.38-bk4, -bk5 and -mm3 |
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Steven Cole wrote: > > I only recently started testing 2.5.x kernels with X, and have > immediately run into problems. > > My new test system is a Dell GX110 single PIII, IDE (Intel 82801AA IDE), > 256MB memory. The 2.5.38-bk4,5 and -mm3 kernels were SMP (due to > not having Rusty's cpu_possible fix), non-PREEMPT. > > Running XFree86 4.2.1, I get a hard lockup with the box not responsive > to pings. Ssh sessions don't respond and the pointer does not respond > to mouse movements. This occurs very soon (2-3 minutes) after starting > X with 2.5.38-bk4 and -bk5. I was able to run 2.5.38-mm3 for about 30 > minutes under load (kernel compiles) before a freeze occurred. I ran > 2.5.38-mm3 again for about 20 minutes with X and under load before a > second lockup occurred. Sorry, nothing logged, and when the freezes > occur, there is no response to SYSRQ-H,S or B. SYSRQ-H works as > expected before the freeze. > > Without running X on this system, no freezes have been observed with any > of these kernels with the system loaded by running kernel compiles and > dbench with up to 40 clients. >
Me too. deadlocks on tasklist_lock. Some fixes went into Linus's tree a few hours ago, so please retest. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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