From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262878AbVHEGcB (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 02:32:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262876AbVHEGcA (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 02:32:00 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40]:2028 "EHLO ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262878AbVHEGbs (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 02:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <42F307C4.9010503@davyandbeth.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:31:32 -0500 From: Davy Durham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc question References: <42F30252.3080105@davyandbeth.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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) >> >> > >Start the process under the observation of strace. > > > >>However, I'm trying to figure out what signal killed it. >> >> > > >Jan Engelhardt > > 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.