From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964806AbWFHI5D (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:57:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964809AbWFHI5D (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:57:03 -0400 Received: from mx6-6.spamtrap.magma.ca ([209.217.78.149]:49602 "EHLO mx6-6.spamtrap.magma.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964807AbWFHI5B (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:57:01 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [192.168.1.208] From: "Rajeev Majumdar" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problem related to Red Hat Linux kernel 2.6.9-5.EL Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:30:21 +0550 Message-ID: <20060608.JQf.97689800@192.168.1.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: AngleMail for eGroupWare (http://www.egroupware.org) v 1.2.002 X-magma-MailScanner-Information: Magma Mailscanner Service X-magma-MailScanner: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi , I have a problem with kernel 2.6.9-5. EL that is enterprise version of Red Hat linux. I am trying to run 500 or more processes parallely with TETware distributed test harness (that can schedule processes parallely and using its synchronisizing mechanism) but after running for some time some processes get stuck at futex system call and waiting infinetly that i found with strace utility.Can you please tell me whether its bug of kernel or it has something to do with my program and setup. If is a bug then can you tell me the patch available to fix this problem and where can i find that... My machine's configuration is as follows Processor- P IV 3Ghz Ram - 2 GB waiting for your reply Regards Rajeev