linux-kernel - Re: Various OOps with 2.6.27-rc5

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Message-Id: <20080908135736.5d0c3ef8.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:57:36 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	alejandro.riveira@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Various OOps with 2.6.27-rc5

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:36:22 +0200 Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:

> El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 12:46 -0700, Randy Dunlap escribió:
> 
> [ ... ]
> > > The dmesg including oopses
> > 
> > Actually they are INFO: messages with getnstimeofday() being stuck,
> > similar to a few other reports on lkml.
> 
>  So is it useful to report them or i just do:
>  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
>  And forget about it ??

I'm not sure.  I haven't followed the other problem reports very
closely.  AFAIK, it represents a real bug, but if your system is
running OK, you could just ignore it...


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