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. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
