[gentoo-dev] freeze machince for minutes

[gentoo-dev] freeze machince for minutes

[Christian Loitsch]

I can reproduce a freeze of my machine, which takes at least a minute.

Preempt is activated.
What I do is:
emerge mozilla (root)
play with lynx (normal user) on another console.

I don't think lynx has something to do with it, but it happened twice
with this "configuration".

Because I don't have enough space on my disk, I exportet the
PORTAGE_TMP to another machine (over samba).
But as I did not have the rights to become root, I created a file-image
on the other machine, and mounted this image as loop device:

# mount
[snip]
//matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/loitschc on /mnt/matrix type smbfs (0)
/mnt/matrix/tmp-gentoo/fs.img on /mnt/loop-matrix type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

My machine is also _very_ slow: MMX 133. (it takes ~10h to compile
Mozilla)

I have no idea if the machine freezes or just stays with the emerge.
Anyway it responds to ^-Alt-Del.
But also come back the second time, when I waited a little bit longer.

So my question, should I report this somewhere?

christian