Forgive me, I'm just starting the development kernel journey, so haven't quite
hashed out yet how a proper bug/anomaly report should be made. I will attempt
a description of what happenned, though, in the hope that it is helpful.
I was using my standard workspace--Window Manager, Netscape, XEmacs, PPP,
rxvt, xscreensaver, some dock applets, etc. I was also (and this would seem to
be the anomaly) was building glibc-2.0.103 in the background. It reached a
simple 'mv ...' statement, and froze, and I watched my CPU meter (wmmon)
slowly climb and climb, till I had about eight load lines. During this time
all commands basically froze to a snail's pace... some attempts at 'ps', 'su',
and 'ls', and 'top'. My window manager retained complete responsiveness,
however. Eventually I was able to get 'top' running, and saw that two
instances of 'bash' were taking up 46% and 44% or so of the CPU. I killed
both, but then 'init' simply took over 98% or so of the CPU. Killing my window
manager (?) seemed to fix all of this.
Info:
2.1.129 clean with SMP commented out
glibc-2.0.7
Pentium 233-MMX w/64mb RAM, 80mb swap
Originally a Red Hat 5.0 distro, but bears little resemblance to that now...
If a config/anything else is helpful, let me know.
m.
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