HEADS UP [Re: thread+preemption stability improvement]

[Brad Davis]

> All,
>
> Initial testing of this patch looks very promising.  For those that
> aren't comfortable with patching their sources by hand, note that it
> was committed to CVS a few hours ago and should be showing up on CVSup
> very shortly (rev 1.8 of sys/i386/i386/intr_machdep.c is what you want
> if you are running i386).  Please go out and test this as much as
> possible so that we can determine if futher action is needed.

No luck here. I'm running a GENERIC kernel too. I get a couple of terms
open in XFCE, Gvim, and 4 tabs in firefox and it hard locks.


Regards,
Brad