[techtalk] SMP hangs on 2.4.2?

[Jeff Dike]

jockgrrl at austin.rr.com said:
> I've been having more than a few hangs with the 2.4.2-SMP kernel of
> late.  I don't want to just run off and download 2.4.5 because it's
> newer.  Is there anyone else running the SMP kernel that cured any
> hangs by upgrading to a newer kernel?

Have you complained on the kernel list?  That would be the place to get the 
definitive answer to something like this.

For hangs, it would be nice to get at least some information about it so the 
kernel folks have more to go on than 'my system hangs'.  See 
Documentation/sysrq.txt for how to enable SysRq.  When the machine hangs, I 
think the drill is to do 'p' a lot and write down the various values for the 
IP that you see.  When you get tired of that, reboot and translate those 
numbers into something symbolic by looking at your System.boot file (I don't 
know if there's an automatic way of doing the translation - ksymoops will, but 
you don't have an oops...).

Then post all that (plus your configuration and anything else you think is 
relevant) to the kernel list and see if anyone recognizes it as having been 
fixed.

				Jeff