Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:09:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:09:35 -0500 Received: from horus.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.25]:54719 "EHLO horus.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:09:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0CB871.B660B938@uow.edu.au> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:09:37 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test8 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue In-Reply-To: <20001110095227.A15010@sendmail.com> <3A0C37FF.23D7B69@timpanogas.org> <20001110101138.A15087@sendmail.com> <3A0C3F30.F5EB076E@timpanogas.org> <20001110133431.A16169@sendmail.com> <3A0C6B7C.110902B4@timpanogas.org> <3A0C6E01.EFA10590@timpanogas.org> <3A0C929B.EE6F7137@linux.com> <3A0C9277.273FA907@timpanogas.org> <3A0C96FD.8441F995@linux.com>, <3A0C96FD.8441F995@linux.com>; from david@linux.com on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:46:53PM -0800 <20001110202527.A3342@vger.timpanogas.org> <3A0CB2D8.EA3E3DA4@uow.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. > > I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. > > top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have > > verified this problem, and all you are saying is that your servers > > are never heavily loaded for long periods of time, say 200 hours > > at a stretch of consatnt ftp traffic? > > Kernel threads? Do this: > > strcpy(current->comm, "threadname"); /* 16 char array!! */ > current->mm->arg_start = current->mm->arg_end = 0; /* black magic */ > > and `ps' should be happy. Even better, use sched.c:daemonize(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/