From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Stromsoe <cbs@cts.ucla.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3, syslogd hangs then processes get stuck in schedule_timeout
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:37:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041222013726.72da5ee7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412211606360.28245@potato.cts.ucla.edu>
Chris Stromsoe <cbs@cts.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm still seeing this problem. It repeats every week or week and a half,
> usually after logs have been rotated and a dvd has been written. syslogd
> stops writing output, then everything that does schedule_timeout() hangs,
> the process table fills, and everything grinds to a halt.
>
> If the problem is detected early enough, syslogd can be manually killed
> and restarted, unwedging everything and returning everything to normal
> operation.
>
> I'm running 2.6.10-rc3, compiled with smp. I've been seeing this since at
> least 2.6.8.1, both smp and nosmp. userspace is debian testing.
>
> sysrq+t output from three hangs in November with 2.6.9 is at
> http://hashbrown.cts.ucla.edu/deadlock/.
Can't see anything untoward there, although one wonders why you have 609
instances of cron running.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-22 9:38 UTC|newest]
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2004-12-22 0:39 Chris Stromsoe
2004-12-22 9:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-12-22 10:03 ` Chris Stromsoe
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