Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2003 16:10:34 +0200 | From | Matthias Mueller <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... |
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:19:37PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:10:40PM +0200, Matthias Mueller wrote: > > Tested all of them and some combinations: > > patch 1 alone: still mouse hangs > > patch 2 alone: still mouse hangs > > patch 3 alone: no hangs, but I get some zombie process (starting a lot of > > xterms results in zombie xterms, not noticed with vanilla > > and the other patches) > > patch 1+2: no mouse hangs > > patch 1+2+3: no mouse hangs, no zombies > > I can't find a sense in the zombie thing, how can you generate zombie at > all from xterms? That sounds like your userspace is terribly broken and > it may have race conditions or whatever. In no way those patches can > generate or not-generate zombies from xterms. I never ever seen a zombie > xterm in my whole linux experience.
I rechecked everything an noticed, that it wasn't a xterm, but a wrapper script, that executed rxvt. I changed that to plain xterm and the zombies were gone. So I think there was probably a bug in rxvt triggered there. After that I redid the tests, with the same result (and no zombies). I can feel no difference between 1+2 or 1+2+3.
Matthias -- Matthias.Mueller@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Rechenzentrum Universitaet Karlsruhe Abteilung Netze - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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