Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.49 rmmod broken + unkillable process | Date | Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:17:03 +1100 |
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On 06 Mar 2000 14:08:23 -0500, nbecker@fred.net wrote: >2.3.49 i686 > >ps shows 90+% cpu used by: > >root 1590 99.7 0.1 1068 304 ? R 12:20 82:42 /sbin/rmmod -as > >kill -KILL will not kill it! > >/sbin/lsmod says: >Module Size Used by >lsmod: QM_INFO: No such file or directory > > >But: cat /proc/modules says: >scsi_mod 73276 0 (deleted) >vmnet 18080 1 >vmmon 18660 0 (unused) >autofs4 11388 3 (autoclean) >nfsd 164920 8 (autoclean) >lockd 48828 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] >sunrpc 58116 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
It is probably not rmmod that is at fault. When a module is being deleted, rmmod calls sys_delete_module which invokes the module's cleanup_module routine. I suspect that the scsi_mod cleanup_module is looping. Because the code is looping in the kernel, kill has no effect.
But you have vmware loaded and we have no way of telling what that code does, the main vmware code is binary only. It is quite possible that vmware is causing this problem. If you can reproduce without loading any binary only modules, repost the problem.
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