linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.23] tasks stuck in running state?

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:18:08 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.23] tasks stuck in running state?

On 10/19/2007 06:03 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> [jgarzik@...tzel misc-2.6]$ strace -p8484
>> Process 8484 attached - interrupt to quit
> [sits there, chewing up CPU grepping a 47-line header file]
> 

And sysrq-p is pretty useless unless you can force the keyboard
interrupt and the spinning process onto the same CPU.

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