Under heavy CPU and disk load the system became unstable after logging this message to syslog. Some processes were getting stuck in an unkillable state (ps, top). reboot -f succeeded and the machine recovered. Linux ny.email-scan.com 2.4.18-5smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 10 15:19:40 EDT 2002 i686 unknown Dual P-III
This bug still exists in 8.0, with the errata kernel.
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