While running dbench 64 on 2.5.60 on quad P3 xeon...
uptime
6:09pm up 29 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03
There are 64 dbench processes though...
rwhron@dev4-003:~$ ps aux|grep -c dbench
66
There are no files in the dbench tmp directory.
I can cp a file and mkdir with no problem.
wli suggested looking at the wchan file, but there is none.
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# ls
cmdline cwd environ exe fd maps mem mounts root stat statm status
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# find /proc -name wchan
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134#
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# cat status
Name: dbench
State: S (sleeping)
Tgid: 1134
Pid: 1134
PPid: 1109
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
FDSize: 256
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 1 2 3 4 6 10
VmSize: 1468 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 400 kB
VmData: 100 kB
VmStk: 8 kB
VmExe: 12 kB
VmLib: 1312 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 8000000000000007
SigCgt: 0000000000020000
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# cat statm
367 100 340 4 0 363 0
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# cat stat
1134 (dbench) S 1109 957 851 768 1221 256 95 0 103 0 0 1 0 0 15 0 0 0 34359 1503232 100 4294967295 134512640 134523852 3221223712 3221223520 1074715817 0 0 7 131072 3222392583 0 0 17 2 0 0
Based on 3222392583 in /proc/dbench_parent/stat, wli suggested looking for 0xC011CF07 in System.map:
root@dev4-003:/proc/1134# grep -C3 -i C011CF /boot/System.map-2.5.60
c011ca10 t wait_task_zombie
c011cb70 t wait_task_stopped
c011cce0 T sys_wait4
c011cf40 T sys_waitpid
c011cf5a t .text.lock.exit
c011d0f0 T do_getitimer
c011d1f0 T sys_getitimer
c011d260 T it_real_fn
wli said it looks like wait4 is broken.
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Randy Hron
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