System lockup with 2.1.127

Michael Lausch (mla@gams.co.at)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:11:33 +0100

It happened twice the last 2 days. Suddenly the System loads goes up
to 4-5, all CPU time is eaten by the system, none left for user space
(xosview). Switching from X to a console works, but i can't login
there (the system is frozen after i entered the passwd) or execute any
programs.

The second time i spent some time trying to find out waht happend:

<SysRq> <P> and <SysRq> <T> showed me 3 shells (bash) and
Emacs and exmh in running state. The EIP is always
in the schedule() kernel function (I wrote down 10 EIP numbers).

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