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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:03:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200978207.3944.8.camel@homer.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801221105.11413.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:05 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. When this happens,
> > kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs when trying to attach to
> > the process. The same with gdb. ps shows the process as being in the R
> > state.
> >
> > I pressed Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-T, and this was shown for pan:
> > Jan 21 21:45:01 Anastacia kernel: pan           R  running task        0 
> 
> Well I've twice tried to submit a patch to print stacks for running
> tasks as well, but nobody seems interested. It would at least give a
> chance to see something.

I've hit same twice recently (not pan, and not repeatable).


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 20:58 Frederik Himpe
2008-01-22  0:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22  5:03   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2008-01-22  5:25     ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22  5:47       ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 14:49         ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 23:02           ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24  5:30       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-26 13:29       ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-26 13:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-26 14:27           ` Pascal Terjan
2008-01-28  1:49             ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28  1:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28 18:05           ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-31 22:45           ` Frederik Himpe
2008-02-02  0:53             ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 23:00     ` Nick Piggin

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