Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 May 2005 16:57:25 -0500 | Subject | Re: PATCH [PPC64]: dead processes never reaped | From | Linas Vepstas <> |
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:44:10PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:38 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > The patch below appears to fix a problem where a number of dead processes > > linger on the system. On a highly loaded system, dozens of processes > > were found stuck in do_exit(), calling thier very last schedule(), and > > then being lost forever.
And this problem seems to be unreproducible. Dang, it was one of the more interesting ones I've seen.
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