@Theodore I can reproduce the bug on a 1.6Ghz Via with 2GB of memory. The partition is on a 4 drive SATA II 7200rpm RAID 5 array. This box is running at a console level only. I do not have Gnome or any other applications, even Apache or MySQL installed. When the problem occurs for me, I have no other applications running.
I can cause this bug with only the barest of processes running, processor load at 0.00 and 1.9GB of free memory before I begin deleting. I say this to highlight that I do not believe resources, especially memory, are the issue. That said, I now need to contradict myself somewhat. Due to a different bug, I have had to disable my VIA padlock hardware assisted cryptography chip. (i.e. I have blacklisted the padlock_aes and padlock_sha modules) Because of this, all operations on my ext4 data partition (which is encrypted) use the processor directly. Therefore during any large operation (e.g. possibly during a large delete such as one that causes the problem for me) I would imagine that the processor hits 100% usage very quickly. Unfortunately I cannot confirm this as the lockup happens too quickly. Therefore, despite the very low usage on my box it is still perhaps a processor constraint issue. Thanks, David -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
