Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64

[Harald Grossauer]

Andy Green wrote:
> Harald Grossauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since the upgrade to FC5.x86_64 (from FC3.x86_64) Thunderbird
>> sometimes locks up when downloading large emails (not always
>> reproducible), Firefox frequently hangs (irreproducibly) without
>> apparent reason. Starting both programs with "strace -f ..." shows
>> that the last system call before lockups are futex syscalls. So I
>> thought there might be some race condition? Maybe it has to do with
>> the SMP kernel used by default in 64bit FC5? Is there a way to get a
>> "FC5.x86_64-standard kernel" without SMP?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harald
>>
>
> Workaround to simulate this might be to add the following to the SMP
> kernel commandline
>
> isolcpus=1
>
> But it seems there is a deeper problem somewhere that it locks up at all.
>
> -Andy
Thanks for the advice, did not change anything though :-(
So the problem seems to be somewhere else.

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