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Comment 16 for bug 276476

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Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe) wrote : Re: [Bug 276476] Re: INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds causes system freeze

kenjo wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:35 +0000, Martin Lindhe wrote:
>
>> kenjo wrote:
>>
>>> Are you also running a background process??
>>>
>>> I have changed to 2.6.28 and its much much better but still have had a
>>> few short freezes
>>>
>>>
>> What would qualify as a background process? I run several
>> such as sshd, cupsd, bluetoothd ;)
>>
>> However i also am running distributed.net client 24/7 on the machine.
>>
>>
>
> I meant any low priority process so that the machine always uses 100%
> cpu. This looks like the common thing so far.
>
 Actually it appears to me that the bug is triggered for me
sometimes when I am running VirtualBox in the background
for several hours. But as mentioned before it can happen
in various situations.