Re: multi threaded program locks up /proc, ps
- From: phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 7 Jan 2006 10:12:07 GMT
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:02:27 +0100 Kasper Dupont <36237715889427396252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|>
|> Why would it matter if the process being examined is blocked in I/O or
|> not when ps examines it,
|
| I guess it shouldn't matter. Sounds more likely that some data
| structure related to the process is locked, and whoever did that
| isn't going to unlock it again. It could even be that the
| process itself is just blocked on the same lock.
|
| So why is a data structure left locked for apparently no good
| reason? It could be a race condition or some other kernel bug.
Indeed. Worth investigating. Hope he can reproduce it in the current
kernel if it hasn't been fixed already.
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