From: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:45:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201819559.2965.2.camel@Anastacia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801281246.24043.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > > > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > > > > > reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. When this
> > > > > > happens, kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs when trying
> > > > > > to attach to the process. The same with gdb. ps shows the process
> > > > > > as being in the R state.
> Well after trying a lot of writev combinations, I've reproduced a hang
> *hangs head*.
>
> Does this help?
Just to confirm: in four days of testing, I haven't seen the problem
anymore, so it looks like this was indeed the right fix.
Thanks!
--
Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-21 20:58 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable Frederik Himpe
2008-01-22 0:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 5:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-01-22 5:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 5:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 14:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 23:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24 5:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-26 13:29 ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-26 13:46 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-26 14:27 ` Pascal Terjan
2008-01-28 1:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28 1:46 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28 18:05 ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-31 22:45 ` Frederik Himpe [this message]
2008-02-02 0:53 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 23:00 ` Nick Piggin
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