From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:39:01 -0500
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:12, Jan Knutar wrote:
>On Thursday 04 November 2004 13:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I'e had that turned on since forever Jan, but usually, when its
>> hung someplace, its well and truely hung, and hardware reset
>> button time.
>
>Are you saying that these zombies (or tasks stuck in state D) also
> make sysrq-T hang, and not list all tasks?

I thought I'd test it right now while the system is runnng normally, 
but I got only a beep from the console, so I went to 
Documentation/sysrq.txt to make sure I was doing it right, and it is 
_not_ working right now.  But it is compiled in according to a make 
xconfig, or a grep of the .config.

[root@coyote linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk13]# grep SYSRQ .config
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

I get a couple of beeps from the console, but thats the limit of the 
response, and a tail -f on the log shows nothing.  I also logged into  
VC2, and tried it there, but that attempt didn't even get me a beep, 
several times.

The keyboard is a cheap ($24) M$ with a few extra buttons that don't 
do anything along the top.  And getting a bit creaky in its old age, 
a lot like me, but I'm about 68 years older than the keyboard :)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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