Re: events kthread gone crazy

[DervishD]

    Hi David :)

 * Davilín <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
> > > 11569 ?        SW<    0:00  \_ [events/0]
> > > 11570 ?        S<     0:00  |   \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_116_0
> > > 11571 ?        D<     0:00  |       \_ /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> > [Ad infinitum]
> >     It seems that ALSA is screwing something. Maybe you need to
> > recompile ALSA binaries or something like that :???
> I think i know the cause of the problem, i'll test it later. You had
> to be careful with 'install' directives in modprobe.conf to not cause
> circular dependencies, and i think maybe this is the problem. But this
> shouldn't trash the kernel with a lot of processes in D state that 
> cannot be killed...

    No, it shouldn't, obviously. Does not modprobe complain about the
circular dependency?
 
> >     Have you seen where xine is disk sleeping. It should not matter
> > to the sound problem, but...
> I was wrong, xine and aMule had nothing to do with the problem. Just a
> 'modprobe snd' triggers the problem.

    Oh, bad :(( Well, at least seems like you isolated the problem,
it shouldn't be hard to fix :?

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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