From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:12:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:12:20 -0400 Received: from m206-234.dsl.tsoft.com ([198.144.206.234]:8361 "EHLO jojda.2y.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:12:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3D1582E4.7016EA1F@bigfoot.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:12:20 -0700 From: Erik Steffl X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sk, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: non-killable program - kernel problem? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cleanup (part of postfix) is eating up most of CPU cycles and I cannot kill it (-9 is ignored) - I guess that means that the problem is somewhere in kernel (system call). Is it true? Is there anything I can do to kill it? to find out what the problem is? I attached gdb to it but now gdb is stuck as well... I didn't see anything suspicious in system log... kernel 2.4.18, I didn't upgrade it for a long time and this cleanup problem only occured recently (last few weeks, twice). TIA erik