Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:33:45 +0100 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: Netscape and wait_on_page |
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Bill Hawes wrote: > > 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?
The process that got stuck has so far always been a process that required special privileges (su, halt, diald) and wasn't cloned afaict.
Andrej
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