Re: odd phenomenon.

From: Dave Jones <[e-mail]>
> 
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:48:33AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
>  > Typically happens with any kind of intense disk activity slowing down
>  > galeon's launch process. (Not only bk, but also for example updatedb
>  > running in the background).
> 
> Maybe, but bk was the only disk-thrashing type app I regularly
> have running when I've tried to reproduce this.
> 
> Is your PPC32 box SMP ?  I'm wondering why I don't see it on my
> athlon/P3 boxes, just on my dual P4.

I see this every morning on my laptop.  Anancron starts my overnight
cron jobs (mostly find across the whole disk).  So, it is not SMP
specific.  I assumed there was some sort of timeout in galeon to make
sure it starts within a particular amount of time or just aborts it.
Always works the second time.

This is on 2.4.19-pre8 (usually) (I must build a newer kernel :-)).

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell