Re: Problem related to Red Hat Linux kernel 2.6.9-5.EL

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 06:23:43 EST


On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:30:21 +0550, Rajeev Majumdar wrote:
> I have a problem with kernel 2.6.9-5. EL that is enterprise
>version of Red Hat linux. I am trying to run 500 or more processes
>parallely with TETware distributed test harness (that can schedule processes
>parallely and using its synchronisizing mechanism) but after running for
>some time some processes get stuck at futex system call and waiting
>infinetly that i found with strace utility.

That kernel is ancient: upgrade to 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL and try again.
If the problem persists, report it to RedHat. This mailing list
(linux-kernel) is about the standard kernel, not vendor-specific ones.
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