From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:43:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:43:39 -0500 Received: from vitelus.com ([64.81.36.147]:1292 "EHLO vitelus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:43:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:43:24 -0800 From: Aaron Lehmann To: John Sheahan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ps hang in 241-pre10 Message-ID: <20010126204324.B10046@vitelus.com> In-Reply-To: <3A724FD2.3DEB44C@reptechnic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <3A724FD2.3DEB44C@reptechnic.com.au>; from john@reptechnic.com.au on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:34:26PM +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:34:26PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote: > Hi > my box has been running 2.4.1-pre10 for three days. > This morning I noticed odd behavioue - ps and top wouuld freeze=20 > with no output. I had the same problem with 2.4.1-pre10 and the zerocopy patchset. I came home one day and xmms was frozen. Attempting to determine whether it was stuck in an odd state, I ran ps aux. At a certain point (presumably just when it started trying to print info about the xmms process), ps froze up too. And any attempts to killall -9 these processes made the killall freeze! I'm not sure what made xmms freeze up in the first place. My first though was a problem in the zerocopy patchset -- most of my mp3s are played over NFS. However, XMMS was completely idle during the time I was away from the computer, so I'm not sure what caused it. It seemed clear, however, that the problem was contagious between processes. I reverted back to 2.4.0-ac7 and have not had any more problems of this nature. --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6clHsdtqQf66JWJkRAqR7AKDPS7kFPvr+PL5CZPJEy0iN51ymmQCfZKGM 8kbLZ40LA+/dHPB5wCUXHDc= =zMg5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/