Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:00:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel. |
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Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>: > > > > 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. > > I see exactly the same here. > > > Please generate a kernel profile when it happens so we can see > > where it got stuck. > > Do I need to compile the kernel with profiling for this:>
Nope.
> > <boot with profile=1> > to work? And is "profile=1" a boot parameter?
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