> Since you seem to have found the problem, this is probably not relevant, > but I found this on Kernel Traffic: > > Alan remarked, "2.5.x crashes erratically and randomly under > high tty/pty load. At the moment I'm assuming this is the tty > code. That means we can't decide not to fix it since its already > fatally broken." Close by, Linus Torvalds said he didn't think > the TTY code was in such bad shape. He guessed there were just a > few locking problems that had crept in, coupled with the > preemption patches' tendency to expose existing locking bugs. > > It sounds vaguely related, except maybe for the "high load" bit.
i think this is a completely different problem. the one Grant and I found is very parisc and compiler specific. randolph
