Re: Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64



Andy Green wrote:
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


Workaround to simulate this might be to add the following to the SMP
kernel commandline

isolcpus=1

But it seems there is a deeper problem somewhere that it locks up at all.

-Andy
Thanks for the advice, did not change anything though :-(
So the problem seems to be somewhere else.

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