System lockup with SMP Kernel.

[lwj]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:42, Paul Furness wrote:
> Interestingly, I had the system hang on me 5 times today. I then stopped
> cron and anacron, and just to make sure I individually ran all the jobs
> that anacron might have tried to run (/etc/cron.*/*) without any
> trouble.
> 
> cron and anacron are still stopped, and I haven't hung since. I'll try
> leaving it on overnight tonight and see what happens.
> 
> I did recompile the kernel but haven't tried booting it yet, because the
> system hasn't hung for a while.

I was reading an unrelated post today that refered to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226. This bug
discusses some memory management issues with RedHat 9. One of the post
seemed to indicate that this problem was fixed in Fedora; however, some
of the problem descriptions reminded me of this thread. It might be
something to look at.