Anyone else with hard freezes?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:09:10 am Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:55:38PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> > Currently running Fedora 9 Release to date.  Doesn't happen very
> > often, maybe once every 3-4 days.  Twice I've caught it at idle with
> > the screen saver (picture viewer) frozen and twice while browsing in
> > Gnome.
> >
> > Not really noticing anything weird in the logs?
>
> I've been running into hangs for a long time on my laptop.
> Seems to be related to something in the utrace patchset (not totally proven
> though). nohz=off makes the problem go away (25 days uptime with
> 2.6.25-0.218.rc8.git7.fc9 :-) )
>
> Would be nice to see SOMEONE being able to reproduce the same issue,
> it's only this one laptop I've seen it on, nearly identical X31
> didn't show any issues.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283161 for the details.

Might be worth trying out a 2.6.25.2 build, there are a number of scheduler 
fixes that went in post-2.6.25. There's a 2.6.25.2 (plus what's in the queue 
for 2.6.25.3) build that was done in dist-f10 last night. Right now, dist-f10 
is still mostly the same thing as dist-f9, so there shouldn't be any issues 
running this kernel on an F9 system -- I'm running it on my own otherwise f9 
laptop w/o a problem (but then again, I didn't have any problems with prior 
kernels either).

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25.2/5.fc10/

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com