Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> wrote:
>
> I've had I/O stall a few times while watching movies, but only the
> mplayer process hung, and I could break it off and restart and it
> woudl fun again for a few minutes.
This is a bug in the new nanosleep code. mplayer asks the kernel for a 50
millisecond sleep and the kernel gives it a two month sleep instead.
Please set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero and retest.
With what compiler are you building your kernels?
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