-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have experianced a strage problem with recent 2.6.{0,1,2} kernels: Sometimes (not allways, thats the problem, otherwise I could just avoid the offending command) during paralel builds (for instance kde-libs or kde-base) the build just stops, and I get a 99% system load. For instance, just now I have (from top): Tasks: 89 total, 5 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.3% us, 99.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Cpu1 : 0.3% us, 99.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Cpu2 : 1.3% us, 98.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Cpu3 : 1.0% us, 99.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2071872k total, 1220772k used, 851100k free, 48080k buffers Swap: 401616k total, 0k used, 401616k free, 892428k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5197 ma1flfs 25 0 2256 884 2184 R 99.5 0.0 6:29.38 sh 5199 ma1flfs 25 0 2260 888 2184 R 99.5 0.0 6:28.02 sh 5201 ma1flfs 25 0 2260 884 2184 R 98.5 0.0 6:29.99 sh 5208 ma1flfs 25 0 1560 440 1404 R 98.5 0.0 6:32.03 grep I cannot kill -9 those processes. Is there some way to get rid of them without a reboot? The strange thing is, resuming the build after the reboot with exactly the same command (make -j4) will work fine... It's just not reproducible at all, but it happend often enought to make it annoying. (BTW, this never happened with non-paralel builds) I have no idea where to start looking... I have attached a "ps -axfu" in case that helps. Florian Schanda -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKjq5fCf8muQVS4cRApTDAJ9firqIMAEMYC0sWmtEYtpA+s8tKwCfXj8W DKkrA9MxZxKXhoJcgxAuiL0= =fV1B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----