From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 04:34:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 04:34:00 -0400 Received: from smtp2.nikoma.de ([212.122.128.25]:11534 "EHLO smtp2.nikoma.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 04:33:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:33:59 +0200 From: Thomas Roessler To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.4.10] /proc freeze during core dump? Message-ID: <20011009103359.F2935@sobolev.does-not-exist.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Roessler Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Face: Oxq^+Q$NuUQ-&J#F14uCyP4}v%$5{ZGnS}PX;zoxOQ%*`#dkJ'qx$w}\Z;m.e*,_K0V8mii$qU(|l Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yesterday, I was able to observe my machine running 2.4.10 half-crash while mozilla tried to dump core: Six minutes after core. had been created for the process in question, any process trying to read /proc//stat (which still existed then; note that there was no disk activity at that point) would hang, and was apparently unkillable. There was no ooops or kernel panic in the logs. -- Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.org/