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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:53:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802021153.56519.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201819559.2965.2.camel@Anastacia>

On Friday 01 February 2008 09:45, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +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.
> >
> > Well after trying a lot of writev combinations, I've reproduced a hang
> > *hangs head*.
> >
> > Does this help?
>
> Just to confirm: in four days of testing, I haven't seen the problem
> anymore, so it looks like this was indeed the right fix.

Thanks very much for reporting and testing. This patch needs to go
into 2.6.24.stable and upstream.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-02  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 20:58 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable Frederik Himpe
2008-01-22  0:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22  5:03   ` Mike Galbraith
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 [this message]
2008-01-22 10:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 23:00     ` Nick Piggin

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