From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932107AbWGGLmh (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:42:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932102AbWGGLmh (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:42:37 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:29596 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932107AbWGGLmg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:42:36 -0400 Cc: michael.kerrisk@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:42:35 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" In-Reply-To: <20060707040749.97f8c1fc.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: <20060707114235.243260@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060707070703.165520@gmx.net> <20060707040749.97f8c1fc.akpm@osdl.org> Subject: Re: splice/tee bugs? To: Andrew Morton X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > c) Occasionally the command line just hangs, producing no output. > > In this case I can't kill it with ^C or ^\. This is a > > hard-to-reproduce behaviour on my (x86) system, but I have > > seen it several times by now. > > aka local DoS. Please capture sysrq-T output next time. I don't have sysrq configured in the kernel that I'm testing at the moment (I'll build again with sysrq), but have just got the error again. For what it's worth, "ps l" says: F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 0 1000 7099 630 16 0 0 0 - D+ pts/30 0:00 [ktee] Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.