Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:59:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:59:16 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-199-104-197.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.199.104.197]:52996 "HELO ns1.theoesters.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:59:06 -0400 From: "Phil Oester" To: Subject: Process start times moving in reverse on 2.4.x Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:59:05 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been having continual unexplained lockup problems since converting one of my outgoing qmail servers to 2.4.x. This has been discussed before on this list, where the symptoms are that anything typed on console takes forever to actually come up, and after a few minutes the machine is so unresponsive it requires a powercycle. Noticed that when this box is in its state of unresponsiveness, the process start times in ps gradually move backwards. The following listings were taken over about a 1.5 hour timespan. First root 1 0 0 11:04 ? 00:00:09 init root 2 1 0 11:04 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 0 11:04 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] root 4 1 0 11:04 ? 00:00:00 [kreclaimd] root 5 1 0 11:04 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 6 1 0 11:04 ? 00:00:02 [kupdated] root 96 1 0 11:06 ? 00:00:00 [kreiserfsd] root 356 1 0 11:06 ? 00:00:02 syslogd -m 0 root 366 1 0 11:06 ? 00:00:00 klogd Second root 1 0 0 10:54 ? 00:00:09 init root 2 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] root 4 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [kreclaimd] root 5 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 6 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:02 [kupdated] root 96 1 0 10:56 ? 00:00:00 [kreiserfsd] root 356 1 0 10:56 ? 00:00:02 syslogd -m 0 root 366 1 0 10:56 ? 00:00:00 klogd Third root 1 0 0 10:03 ? 00:00:09 init root 2 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] root 4 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [kreclaimd] root 5 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 6 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:02 [kupdated] root 96 1 0 10:06 ? 00:00:00 [kreiserfsd] root 356 1 0 10:06 ? 00:00:02 syslogd -m 0 root 366 1 0 10:06 ? 00:00:00 klogd Fourth root 1 0 0 09:53 ? 00:00:09 init root 2 1 0 09:53 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 0 09:53 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] root 4 1 0 09:53 ? 00:00:00 [kreclaimd] root 5 1 0 09:53 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 6 1 0 09:53 ? 00:00:02 [kupdated] root 96 1 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 [kreiserfsd] root 356 1 0 09:55 ? 00:00:02 syslogd -m 0 root 366 1 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 klogd Thoughts? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/