Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:10:05 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: Netscape and wait_on_page |
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Andrej Presern wrote:
> I'm experiencing similar problems, only that it's not a netscape process > and it's not in wait_on_page: > 100 0 1 0 0 0 752 412 do_page_fau D ? 0:03 > init [5] > > The result seems to be that I'm unable to reboot/halt the machine (which > seems to happen quite often, usually when diald's redialing constantly > (busy line) or when the screenblanker activates - after that, problems) > and sometimes I couldn't 'su' (it would block forever).
This sounds like a different problem, and would probably be caused by a page fault while the mm semaphore is being held for the process. Do you know if the stuck process is a cloned task?
Regards, Bill
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