Apologies, this is a qualitative post --- but now that people are talking about different processors, I'll contribute some fluffy info.
That said, I experienced many "freezes" per day on my Core Solo laptop when doing "dangerous" operations (svn update, rsync, rm, etc.). Then I swapped to a Core 2 Duo, and when doing these same operations, I got about the same number "freezes", only now they recovered faultlessly (so far...) after second or two. After an upgrade to 2.6.30-020630-generic #020630 from the Ubuntu Kernel-ppa mainline, (to solve unrelated HP laptop sound issues), I have not experienced any more "freezes" temporary, or otherwise. c. 2009/7/16 Jared Heath <jared.he...@sbcglobal.net> > It happened very frequently on my Dual Core i86 based system (never got > more than 5 single rm commands off without a hang before I went to the > higher kernel) so it certanly can happen on multi-core systems often. > > Your theory on race conditions is interesting though--it certainly > exhibits the behavior of a race that goes infinite and does not get > caught. > > -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
