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From: Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org>
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Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> What might be useful for someone who can provoke this, is to configure
> your kernel with MUTEX_PROFILING, then do the following:
>
> <snip>
>
> This will help to show whether something is causing Giant starvation.

I'm currently building a kernel with Scott's patch -- if it still
happens I'll build one with MUTEX_PROFILING and get the results.

Craig