From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758549AbZBBSWA (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:22:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758130AbZBBSUs (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:20:48 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52392 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757791AbZBBSUr (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:20:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:17:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jesper Krogh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.13 Message-ID: <20090202181732.GB6903@suse.de> References: <20090125004823.GA6711@kroah.com> <4985A1C9.4050005@krogh.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4985A1C9.4050005@krogh.cc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:21:13PM +0100, Jesper Krogh wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.27.13 >> kernel. >> It contains a wide range of bugfixes, and all users of the 2.6.27 kernel >> series are strongly encouraged to upgrade. >> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between >> 2.6.27.12 and 2.6.27.13 >> The updated 2.6.27.y git tree can be found at: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git >> and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=summary > > This may be just noise, but recently I have begun seeing Zombie processes > hanging on some nodes in the computescluster: > > 2006 2055 0.0 0.0 9144 1260 ? Ss 07:24 0:00 \_ > -bash /z/gridengine/default/spool/node30/job_scripts/692747 > 2006 2060 39.0 38.7 1696468 1573884 ? S 07:24 160:21 \_ > /usr/bin/perl /z/home/trunk//bin/workqueue/worker > 2006 2225 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 07:29 0:00 \_ > [sh] > > ps faux output. > > Killing the parent process makes it go awasy, but this one has been sitting > there for almost 7 hours by now, without going away, essentially hagning > this process. Does this also happen on older .27-stable releases? Or is it something new to .13? thanks, greg k-h