Re: 2.1.40 lockup
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
28 May 1997 04:03:20 GMT
In article <199705272130.XAA03852@jebril.tornado.be>,
Michel Eyckmans (MCE) <mce@tornado.be> wrote:
>
>Just want (? :-) to report a solid lockup of 2.1.40 SMP. I was reading
>news without problems, but then decided to start netscape while waiting
>for the next group to be threaded. Soon after netscape started
>downloading my "start page" everything locked up solid.
2.1.40 (and a lot of the 2.1.3x series) have a really nasty hole in the
slab allocator which affects anything that uses kmalloc() or the slab
interfaces in really nasty ways. Try out 2.1.41 if that would fix this
for you,
Linus