Hi Christian -
I don't have a lot of experience with pre-empt, but the best thing to do
would be to break into KDB and see which process is hung, and what it's
hung on... if you have kdb....
-Eric
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 12:00, Christian Lambert wrote:
>
> I've been running a stock debian 2.4.19 + xfs2.4.19 snapshot patch + preempt
> and this worked fine for like 3-4 days now. But this morning I came up
> and my system hung up when I did "ls" in the console. Then everything
> hung up from there and lead eventually to X hanging as well, the hard drive
> light was solid "on". I have a mix of reiserfs and xfs filesystems so I'm
> not sure what caused it, but I wanted to know if this is known to cause
> problems or it's supposed to work? I'm not using lock-break, just preempt.
> I think what might have trigged this hang is the updatedb (for locate) that
> ran during the night and maybe have hosed things up scanning thru the
> filesystems.
>
> -Christian
>
>
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