Messages in this thread | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo) | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:41:34 -0500 |
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On January 15, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> wrote: > > > This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A > > backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its > > something that should go into stable asap. > > the problem is that this bug was only present in x86.git. I.e. neither > 2.6.24 nor 2.6.23 has this particular bug. > > perhaps something else in x86.git fixed your box, but this > x86.git-specific hang 'took over its place', and now that it got fixed, > you've got a working box? In any case, please monitor your box, it might > still lock up the same way it did previously ...
I am now testing with a .24-rc7+fix kernel. So far so good. Running gentoo's 32 bit firefox with flash 9 is a good way to trigger the problem here as is running Delftship (freeship) under wine. The problem is usually worst with a fully preemptive kernel. I have been using both on a kernel with preempt and have an uptime of 22 hours - this is really good. I have rarely been able to get this much uptime using these apps. If it manages to run for a few more days without a lockup it would really be worth trying to figure out what in .24 fixes the problem...
THANKS! Ed Tomlinson
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