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SubjectRe: deadlock with 2.6.9
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> 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?

I'm guessing so many processes because every time one gets started, it
ends up getting stuck in schedule_timeout(), until the system stops
spawning new processes. There are many of them because the system was
running for a day or so before it became unresponsive.

>> The box is P3 SMP
>
> Can you try a uniprocessor kernel?

Boot with nosmp or boot a kernel compiled for up?

>> 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.

I've had more problems with reliable hardware raid controllers than I have
with software raid. Your mileage may vary.


-Chris
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