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Comment 24 for bug 276476

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kenjo (ken-kenjo) wrote : Re: [Bug 276476] Re: INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds causes system freeze

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:59 +0000, unikob wrote:
> Tested using Brian Rogers program from LKML:
>
> Current 8.10 chokes albeit doesn't hang, system becomes unusable.
>
> Current Jaunty (of 4.4.2009) gets a little choppy when four instances of
> the program runs at the same time,.
>
> Jaunty with patched kernel fares best, no choppines when four instances
> simultaneously running.
>
> Used test case:
>
> Boinc running on four cores worldcommunitygrid, Firefox with Flash x64
> playing a video from Myspace, launching the test program from console.
>

I have upgraded to a 2.6.29 kernel and see no problem any longer.