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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:53:56 +1100 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@...enet.be> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, stable@...nel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable On Friday 01 February 2008 09:45, Frederik Himpe wrote: > On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > > On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > > > > > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan > > > > > > > usenet reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. > > > > > > > When this happens, kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs > > > > > > > when trying to attach to the process. The same with gdb. ps > > > > > > > shows the process as being in the R state. > > > > Well after trying a lot of writev combinations, I've reproduced a hang > > *hangs head*. > > > > Does this help? > > Just to confirm: in four days of testing, I haven't seen the problem > anymore, so it looks like this was indeed the right fix. Thanks very much for reporting and testing. This patch needs to go into 2.6.24.stable and upstream. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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