Comment 239 for bug 330824

Apologies, this is a qualitative post --- but now that people are talking
about different processors, I'll contribute some fluffy info.

That said, I experienced many "freezes" per day on my Core Solo laptop when
doing "dangerous" operations (svn update, rsync, rm, etc.). Then I swapped
to a Core 2 Duo, and when doing these same operations, I got about the same
number "freezes", only now they recovered faultlessly (so far...) after
second or two.
After an upgrade to 2.6.30-020630-generic #020630 from the Ubuntu Kernel-ppa
mainline, (to solve unrelated HP laptop sound issues), I have not
experienced any more "freezes" temporary, or otherwise.

c.

2009/7/16 Jared Heath <email address hidden>

> It happened very frequently on my Dual Core i86 based system (never got
> more than 5 single rm commands off without a hang before I went to the
> higher kernel) so it certanly can happen on multi-core systems often.
>
> Your theory on race conditions is interesting though--it certainly
> exhibits the behavior of a race that goes infinite and does not get
> caught.
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