Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

From: David Weis (djweis@plconline.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 13:41:09 EDT

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    On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > I am running 2.2.16 unpatched on a PII-450 with 512 megs of memory. The
    > > disk controller is a Mylex DAC960. Recently the machine seems to be
    > > locking up under moderate load. I wanted to see what was causing it, and
    > > running setiathome seems to be a pretty good trigger for it. Using
    > > control-scroll lock showed that the seti process, along with any new
    > > processes I tried to start ended up as deadlocked.
    >
    > Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an
    > updated DAC960 driver

    That fixed it partly. I'm still getting lots of uninterruptible processes,
    but it lasted a few hours this time before getting bad. The freeze is
    still occurring in schedule().

    Any other advice?

    dave 

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