Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:16:42 -0400 Received: from water.CC.McGill.CA ([132.206.27.29]:31718 "EHLO water.cc.mcgill.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:16:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:47:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Felix Braun To: Subject: Re: Random lockups with kernels 2.4.6-pre8+ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi again, I have been able to reproduce the locking-up behaviour! It occurs every time I start Mozilla (0.9.2) or gtkEmbed. Other memory intensive programs (GIMP) don't have that behaviour. Strangely enough, the system remains mostly functional: I can switch consoles, X and Enlightenment remain responsive, I can even execute some programs. But programs that deal with mozillas /proc entries just hang. top and ps hang; also if I cd into /proc/ and do an ls *block*; you can't even kill it with CTRL-C. Listing other subdirs works fine though. Other things that hang are w and xdm-greeter. Considering these symptoms, it seems to be more of an issue with mozilla than with the kernel. Still, I don't know why the ls /proc/mozilla should block. Also things work perfectly with kernel 2.4.6-pre5. Can anybody reproduce the symptoms, tell me whether this is a problem with the kernel, mozilla or both, or provide me with other insight? I'd appreciate it very much! Bye Felix - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/