From: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linuxppc64-dev <linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [PPC64]: dead processes never reaped
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:57:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050505215725.GJ11745@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113975850.5515.377.camel@gaston>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:44:10PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:38 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > The patch below appears to fix a problem where a number of dead processes
> > linger on the system. On a highly loaded system, dozens of processes
> > were found stuck in do_exit(), calling thier very last schedule(), and
> > then being lost forever.
And this problem seems to be unreproducible. Dang, it was one of the
more interesting ones I've seen.
--linas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-05 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 19:38 PATCH [PPC64]: dead processes never reaped Linas Vepstas
2005-04-19 1:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-19 17:39 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-04-19 1:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-19 1:25 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-19 17:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-04-20 5:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-05 21:57 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050505215725.GJ11745@austin.ibm.com \
--to=linas@austin.ibm.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=anton@samba.org \
--cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.