Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Fri Aug 25 11:25:06 UTC 2006
Harald Grossauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since the upgrade to FC5.x86_64 (from FC3.x86_64) Thunderbird sometimes
> locks up when downloading large emails (not always reproducible),
> Firefox frequently hangs (irreproducibly) without apparent reason.
> Starting both programs with "strace -f ..." shows that the last system
> call before lockups are futex syscalls. So I thought there might be some
> race condition? Maybe it has to do with the SMP kernel used by default
> in 64bit FC5? Is there a way to get a "FC5.x86_64-standard kernel"
> without SMP?
>
> Regards,
> Harald
>
Similar symptoms for me -- including occasional core dumps on
thunderbird startup (and other odd behavior) -- turned out to be a bad
DIMM. It failed memtest86 repeatedly.
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