| Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:41:17 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel. |
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:25:20 +0200 Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> 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? >
Please generate a kernel profile when it happens so we can see where it got stuck.
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