Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:00:39
Message-Id:	`38af3d670812182300h33962a96i48596af124d1ee3f@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup by Dave Oxley

1	On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2	> I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got
3	> the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100%
4	> CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset the
5	> server.
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7	Couldn't a hard reset be avoided with the magic SysRq key?
8
9	Regards,
10	Jorge Peixoto