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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: odd phenomenon.
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:38:16AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> Something strange I've noticed on all recent 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.
> If I start galeon whilst I've got a bk pull in operation, the
> galeon process starts, opens its window, and then dies instantly.
> Starting it a second time works.
> Its not OOM, as theres plenty of free RAM, and half gig of free (unused) swap.
> It's almost 100% reproducable here.  Only seen it do it on this box
> though which is a P4 with HT, so it could be SMP related..
> Ideas ?
> 		Dave

(1) strace?
(2) kgdb breakpoint on exit(), conditional on current->comm?
(3) exit code?


Thanks,
Bill
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