Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:25:20 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel. |
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I have seen this both with mm2, m33 and mm4. Suddenly, the load meter jumps. Using ps & top, I see one process using 100% cpu. This is always a process that was exiting, this tend to happen when I close applications, or doing debian upgrades which runs lots of short-lived processes.
I believe it is running in the kernel, ps lists it with stat "RN" and it cannot be killed, not even with kill -9 from root.
Something wrong with process termination?
The machine is still useable, although with less power. renicing the unkillable cpu hog seems to help. I have not yet seen more than one process end up like this.
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