Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbVD0LFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261419AbVD0LFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:05:18 -0400 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:12724 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261416AbVD0LFH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:05:07 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.12-rc3: unkillable java process in TASK_RUNNING on AMD64 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:05:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200504271152.15423.rjw@sisk.pl> <20050427031956.7fd67b31.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050427031956.7fd67b31.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504271305.10882.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2595 Lines: 66 On Wednesday, 27 of April 2005 12:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a problem with 2.6.12-rc3 and the Java VM (from SuSE 9.2) > > on AMD64. Namely, after trying to open a web page containing a Java > > applet, my browser starts a java process that takes almost 100% of the CPU > > (system load, according to gkrellm) and cannot be killed (even by root, > > although it executes with a non-root UID). Apparently, it is in TASK_RUNNING > > (according to ps). > > > > The problem is 100% reproducible (it is enough to visit > > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/index.html to trigger it) > > and it does not depend on the web browser used. > > > > The Java JRE version is: > > > > java version "1.4.2_06" > > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_06-b03) > > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_06-b03, mixed mode) > > > > (I guess it's 32-bit, but I'm not quite sure) and I've installed it from the > > SuSE 9.2 RPM. > > > > It really is a show stopper to me, so please advise. > > Where is it running? > > You can tell this from a kernel profile, or by using sysrq-P five or ten > times then looking at the output. >From sysrq-P, I get this: Pid: 11073, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.12-rc3 RIP: 0010:[] {retint_signal+20} RSP: 0018:ffff810012d6ff58 EFLAGS: 00000282 RAX: 0000000000020000 RBX: ffff810010868820 RCX: ffff810012d6e000 RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff810012d6ff58 RBP: 000000a30c153a4a R08: ffff810012d6e000 R09: ffffffff804c6068 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff804ccd40 R13: ffff810010868820 R14: ffff81002cff2cf0 R15: ffffffff8010d3a7 FS: 00002aaaae6389c0(0000) GS:ffffffff8054a600(0063) knlGS:00000000556c9080 CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00002aaaaabab000 CR3: 0000000012930000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace:{retint_signal+54} all the time. I've also found out that in fact the problem is not 100% reproducible, but it is much more likely to be reproduced if the CPU is heavily loaded. Greets, Rafael -- - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. -- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - 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/