Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:48:08 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel. |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. >> Correction, m22 and mm3 only so far. >> 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. > > <boot with profile=1> > <wait for it to happen> > Unfortunately, I could not provoke it with profile=1. At least, deinstalling and reinstalling texlive a few times was not enough.
If it bothers me more, I'll try to find a better way to reproduce it. If it don't happen again, lets hope it was a hw hiccup.
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