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!