[Bug 53216] Re: BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup

[Jerome Lacoste]

On 10/9/06, jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/9/06, James Tait <james.tait at wyrddreams.org> wrote:
> > Similar, but not identical problem here.  It seems to happen mainly when
> > Skype has been idle for some time, when someone sends me a chat message
> > everything hangs for up to five minutes.
>
> I have the same behavior (i.e. it needs to be idle) except that it
> lasts sometimes more than 5 minutes. I will try to start skype with a
> "strace -tt -T -o strace.log slype" to see what gets printed just
> before the system blocks. Feel free to do the same.

BTW, I just noticed that a newer skype version is available.
http://skype.com/download/skype/linux/changelog.html

Let us know if it stops triggering the bug.

Cheers,

Jerome

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BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup
https://launchpad.net/bugs/53216