From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: non-killable program - kernel problem?
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 04:20:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020701022034.GB829@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D1582E4.7016EA1F@bigfoot.com>
Hi!
> cleanup (part of postfix) is eating up most of CPU cycles and I cannot
> kill it (-9 is ignored) - I guess that means that the problem is
> somewhere in kernel (system call). Is it true? Is there anything I can
> do to kill it? to find out what the problem is?
Yep, that's a kernel bug. Power switch should kill it safely
;-). Magic keys may be able to show where it loops.
Pavel
--
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no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-23 8:12 Erik Steffl
2002-06-24 8:41 ` Erik Steffl
2002-07-01 2:20 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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