Comment 3 for bug 719446

Neat. I'm linux newebie, never occurred to me to try this.

using 2.6.35.24 (??.. latest kernel)

in console: copied about 700MB from /dev/sda3 to same partition: works ok

same copy via nautilus seized up at about 500 Mb

In console after reboot: froze , then every minute spit out:

 at (e.g.) 284.544011

 BUG: soft lockup CPU#0 stuck for 61s [kswap0:26]

 process: kswap0

 pid: 26

 ti: f71fa000

 task: f7133f70

 task.ti f71fa000

 stack: (nada)

        calltrace: (nada)

        code: diferent each time, but can transcribe if you wish

(linux newbie question: I take it within console there's no way to copy or capture what comes up on screen, except pen and paper?)

Can run same test on kernel 2.6.35-23 if any use.

For what it's worth: I asked about this problem a couple of times on

ubuntuforums.org: beginners

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10251738#post10251738

There was some feeling it might have to do with bad memory; but that left problem of why
bad memory didn't cause a freeze in 2.6.35-22 but did in later versions of kernel.