Re: funny kernel death with ksoftirqd_CPUX taking up almost 100% of cpu?

Well,

I still have to debug that damn OOo 1.0.1 bridge problem so I have to go
back into OOo and gdb (which uses alot of memory) and try again.

If I run into it again, I will let you know.

If so, is there anything debug wise I can do that would help pinpoint the
problem.

Thanks,

Kevin

On July 10, 2002 12:24, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

quoted

I just experienced an alarming form of kernel death running a self
compiled SMP kernel with HIGHMEM enabled on my dual G4 -1gig machine.

The kernel tree used is Ben's 2.4.19-pre10 one rebuilt for SMP support,
aec IDE driver and otherwise basically stock.

I was debugging in gdb a large program and noticed typing got slower
and slower.  I quick check of top showed that ksoftirqd_CPU was taking
up almost 100% of the cpu.  I exited out of gdb and killed every
process I could think of but the usage of that kernel demaon stayed at
near 100%.

BTW. It would be interesting to know if you can ever reproduce it...

Ben.

** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/