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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

-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-01 18:36 UTC|newest]

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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