From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261366AbUKGF6Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:58:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261542AbUKGF6Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:58:24 -0500 Received: from siaag2af.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.136]:31974 "EHLO siaag2af.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261366AbUKGF6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:58:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:55:21 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: deadlock with 2.6.9 To: Chris Stromsoe Cc: linux-kernel Message-ID: <200411070058_MC3-1-8E27-AAEF@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > The box is P3 SMP Can you try a uniprocessor kernel? > 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. --Chuck Ebbert 07-Nov-04 00:28:44