Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:46:22 +0100 (MET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: uptime >= 5.0 |
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> We have seen processes get "stuck" on our SPARC boxes. They are running > the Red Hat 4.2 hacked 2.0.30 kernel. A process appears to hang - cannot > be killed etc, the load average increases by one per stuck process until > reboot. > > No idea what else this is related to...
use ps -axl, and look at the 'WCHAN' field. What kernel address is displayed in that field? If it's a hex address, check out your System.map.
this symbol should tell alot about the problem area.
-- mingo
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