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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com>
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Subject: Re: Hard freeze with 2.5.65-mm1
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Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> wrote:
>
> I've had I/O stall a few times while watching movies, but only the
> mplayer process hung, and I could break it off and restart and it
> woudl fun again for a few minutes.

This is a bug in the new nanosleep code.  mplayer asks the kernel for a 50
millisecond sleep and the kernel gives it a two month sleep instead.

Please set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero and retest.

With what compiler are you building your kernels?
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