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SubjectRe: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%
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On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Ken Moffat wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace,
>> then move on to perf top -g -p <pid> (or perf record/report) to peek
>> at what it's up to in the kernel. Once you have the where,
>> trace_printk() is the best thing since sliced bread (which ranks just
>> below printk()).
>>
>> -Mike
>
> Thanks. I'll need to build perf.
>
>ؤ¸en
I probably will too, but I don't have a huge amount of tracing turned on in
this kernel. We'll see what happens tonight & go from there.
FWIW, about all I see in htop is the command line that launched it.


Cheers, Gene
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