Harald Grossauer wrote: > 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. > > Also tried your adivce from https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-August/msg03134.html, did not change anything either. Thanks for your help, though!
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