On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: > >> came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while > >> using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for > >> the shell. You may also want to check into whether something is > >> trying to acquire a lock on a file over that NFS mount which could > >> accrue some extra time making it seem like a process is hung. > > > > We don't have any NFS mounts so I don't think that's it :( > > A number of issues were corrected over the course of the 6.x life > span involving scheduing, including some relating to "lost wakeups". > Many bug fixes relating to threading were also introduced (not sure > if that's relevant to your workload). While it's never a > particularly fun recommendation, I think I'd suggest sliding forward > to the most recent 6.x kernel (but otherwise identical > configuration), perhaps sticking with your current userspace, and > seeing if that resolves the issue.
OK, should be feasible to do that I think. Luckily people at this site don't need to drive for a few hours to fix the PC :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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