Fascinating. So these kernel freezes are actually caused by the kernel 
entering an infinite loop? We should also check with other distros to 
see if the problem occurs with them. I know that none of the Ubuntu 
users I know personally seem to have the problem though. Including me.

thechef wrote:
> I had a full system freeze (can't use mouse, keys, no network response / 
> pong) on 2.6.23 and 2.6.22.10 when I was transferring data. The freeze only 
> occured after a few days of runtime and only when transferring data. Not sure 
> if it was always from or to NFS drives, but there were always NFS drives 
> mounted. The last time it crashed was when I was transferring about 70 GB 
> over the network from an NFS drive to another NFS drive. As I really have 
> difficulty to reproduce this problem I ask if anyone has a system on which it 
> is easier to reproduce "this"(assuming that there is only one error) problem. 
> Can you test the newest kernel versions? 
>   
>> =2.6.23.8
>>     
>
> Is it possible that an error such as this, can cause the problem? It's just 
> the one that looks most likely related, but I don't know what happens to a 
> infinite loop under the big kernel lock and how probable it is, under the 
> known conditions, that the kernel enters this infinite loop. (I'm not a 
> kernel programmer after all)
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git;a=commit;h=97855b49b6bac0bd25f16b017883634d13591d00
>
>

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Heavy network activity (eg: torrent/nfs file transfers) causes Hard System 
Locks and/or Network Freezes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147464
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