May I just add - as mentioned in one of my posts above, the commit just preceding the one I bisected this bug to may be related, as on the system where this bug occurs there are some very short (quarter to half a second?) freezes in cases when this bug occurs, instead of a hard freeze, which disappear when that commit is removed. Both of those commits modify page allocator (I can find that commit's sha-1 if needed, but it directly precedes this one). I can also report another bug for it if needed, but it may be wiser to simply have a look at both of the commits. I don't have any experience in kernel development so I may of course be mistaken as to the role of preceding commit.
Also, my way of reproducing this bug, which seemed to work every time: 1. On an affected system, run Open Office, GIMP, Inkscape or any other memory-hogging application. 2. Use scp to copy a large file over the local network (I used a 2 Gb DVD image). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/719446 Title: systematic freezes on any kernel version post 2.6.35-22 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
