From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nuitari-dovecot@nuitari.net,
Arno Wald <arno.wald@netcologne.de>,
David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27 inotify causes unkillable processes with 100% CPU usage
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:05:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081215120512.GT28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E459FC1E-BD45-459A-A9BD-AC682DBCD2D2@iki.fi>
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:31:29PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> There appears to be a bug in 2.6.27 and inotify where it causes processes
> in running state to eat 100% CPU and they can't be killed with kill -9,
> requiring a reboot to get rid of them.
> Kernels causing the hang:
>
> 2.6.27-9.slh.1-sidux-686
> Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.27.8
> Gentoo with 2.6.27-gentoo-r5, amd64, 2 dual core opterons
>
> Not causing the hang:
>
> 2.6.26-6.slh.1-sidux-686
Could you try to bisect that? Particulary interesting commits:
8f7b0ba1c853919b85b54774775f567f30006107
6ff2d39b91aec3dcae951afa982059e3dd9b49dc
711a49a07f84f914aac26a52143f6e7526571143
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-15 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 11:31 Timo Sirainen
2008-12-15 12:05 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-12-15 13:52 ` Holger Hoffstaette
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