System lockup with SMP Kernel.

[paul.furness at vil.ite.mee.com]

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Hello.

Yeah, I\'ve got this happening, and I think it\'s something to do with cron or similar. I\'m running a workstation and if I leave it on overnight, it is always locked up in the morning. But it also happens sometimes during the day, while I\'m working on it, and the important thing I noticed is that when the desktop freezes, the clock always reads zero seconds - eg today it locked hard at 10:49:00. This suggests a scheduler (like cron) causing the problem.

I\'m not quite clear on why it should only affect the smp, though. I\'m gonna try recompiling the kernel (minimising what I don\'t need) and see if that makes any difference.It might also be instructive to stop cron for 24 hours and see if the thing still hangs.

Paul.

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:31, WipeOut wrote:

> Mine is not related to mounts, it seems to be when the system is doing 
> somthing after I boot it up, only thing I can think that is running is 
> that the system is running the cron jobs that it did not run during the 
> night becasue the power was off..
> 
> Is there anything in there that could be hanging the system?
> 
> I am just about to install FC on a couple of P4 HT servers.. looks like 
> I am going to have to stick with the UP kernel until this gets sorted 
> out.. if it ever does, its seems like its been going on for quite some 
> time now and with FC2 on the way I doubt it will be a high priority..
>