Hi! > That requires a timeout in case we have a user mode helper in the D state. > The corrected patch is appended. > > BTW, it contains a change that may help solve the unfreezeable gcc problem > that has appeared in your tests. Could you please try it or tell me what I > should do to reproduce the problem? I'm away from real macine just now... I could reproduce it with Nigel's "stress ..." command, then trying to build kernel. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp!