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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