System lockup with SMP Kernel.

[WipeOut]

Paul Furness wrote:

>Hello.
>
>Yeah, I've got this happening, and I think it's something to do with
>cron or similar. I'm running a workstation and if I leave it on
>overnight, it is always locked up in the morning. But it also happens
>sometimes during the day, while I'm working on it, and the important
>thing I noticed is that when the desktop freezes, the clock always reads
>zero seconds - eg today it locked hard at 10:49:00. This suggests a
>scheduler (like cron) causing the problem.
>
>I'm not quite clear on why it should only affect the smp, though. I'm
>gonna try recompiling the kernel (minimising what I don't need) and see
>if that makes any difference.
>
>It might also be instructive to stop cron for 24 hours and see if the
>thing still hangs.
>
>
>Paul.
>
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Please let us know what the outcome of your tests is.. then maybe we can 
feed back to the dev team and get it fixed in an updated kernel..

Later..