Re: Linux 2.6.27.13

Jesper Krogh
2009-02-01T13:20:58Z

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] <defunct>

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.

Any suggestions?
--
Jesper