Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
An explanation for the kernel team: certain types of processes seem to freeze the entire user desktop for long periods of time (many seconds). I don't know all the factors that are involved, but programs that start up and immediately make a large number of I/O calls exhibit this behavior. One o

Processed: Re: Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 468075 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze Bug reassigned from package `sudo' to `linux-image-2.6.24-1-686'. > found 468075 2.6.24-4 Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze Bug marked as found in version 2.6.24-4. > thanks Stoppi

Re: Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
reassign 468075 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 found 468075 2.6.24-4 thanks Hello kernel maintainers, Please see this bug log regarding a "soft lockup". A root processes looping around time() is sufficient to make the system unusable. Mar 21 13:06:39 libra kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 2