From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:36:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:36:20 -0400 Received: from dingo.clsp.jhu.edu ([128.220.34.67]:61190 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:36:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 04:20:34 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Erik Steffl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-killable program - kernel problem? Message-ID: <20020701022034.GB829@elf.ucw.cz> References: <3D1582E4.7016EA1F@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D1582E4.7016EA1F@bigfoot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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