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SubjectRe: proc_stack for x86_64 (spinning process)
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Nuno Pais Fernandes <npf@eurotux.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have a spinning process that it's locking my server (eating 100% CPU). I
> can't kill it even with kill -9
>
> I'm trying to use proc_stack to check what's the problem, compiling the kernel
> with
>
> http://linuxhacker.ru/~nikita/patches/2.6.12-rc6/2005.06.11/vm_07-proc-stack.patch
>
> But this patch is only for x86 as my arch is x86_64. Does anyone know if
> there's a patch for x86_64?

The standard way to handle that is to just do

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

and then look for the process backtrace in the kernel log.

Another alternative is to use crash to take a live dump and then analyse that
using crash.

-Andi


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