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From: Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc question
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:31:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F307C4.9010503@davyandbeth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508050823530.20623@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>>I have a zombie process which has apparently died for some unknown reason.. I
>>know it was terminated by a signal (found that from the 9th field (sheduler
>>flags) in /proc/pid/stat)
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>Start the process under the observation of strace.
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>>However, I'm trying to figure out what signal killed it.
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>Jan Engelhardt
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Wish I could.. but it's already happened (to a lot of processes for the 
same reason)

It's an intermittant problem and can't really reproduce it at will.

I've redeployed the binary now so I can hopefully attach to it with gdb 
to figure out some things next time it does happen.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-05  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-05  6:08 /proc question Davy Durham
2005-08-05  6:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-05  6:31   ` Davy Durham [this message]

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