Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64

Chong Yu Meng chongym at cymulacrum.net
Fri Aug 25 14:46:02 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:04 +0200, Harald Grossauer wrote:
> Harald Grossauer wrote:
> > 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
> >>>

Hi Harald,

Can you give us the model and make of your motherboard? You ma want to
Google a bit to see if your motherboard has any known bugs.

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