Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261959AbVEEV5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261960AbVEEV5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:57:42 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:19604 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261959AbVEEV5c (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:57:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:57:25 -0500 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , Andrew Morton , linuxppc64-dev , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: PATCH [PPC64]: dead processes never reaped Message-ID: <20050505215725.GJ11745@austin.ibm.com> References: <20050418193833.GW15596@austin.ibm.com> <1113975850.5515.377.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113975850.5515.377.camel@gaston> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i From: Linas Vepstas Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 17 On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:44:10PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:38 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > The patch below appears to fix a problem where a number of dead processes > > linger on the system. On a highly loaded system, dozens of processes > > were found stuck in do_exit(), calling thier very last schedule(), and > > then being lost forever. And this problem seems to be unreproducible. Dang, it was one of the more interesting ones I've seen. --linas - 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/