I did run the kernel some more today and noticed some odd "hangs". Some processes seemed to get stuck for many seconds and then continued again. Didn't have time to try and track what was happening. Have you seem snything like this?
I've encountered the similar phenomenon several times. I have not investigated it very much, but I guess it is related to the problem reported at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119303432628668&w=2 The 'wa' field of 'top' command showed that one of cpus is under 100% iowait when I encountered the problem. Thanks, Kenji Kaneshige - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
