>>>>> "Frank" == Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> I saw your remarks on the kernel mailing list Frank> wrt. 'threaded processes get stuck in Frank> rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify' dd. 20000911-12, and Frank> thought you might be interested in the fact that something Frank> quite like this also happens on 2.4.0-test11 with glibc-2.2 Frank> (release), BUT NOT ALWAYS... Frank> I can reliably hang java (Blackdown port jdk1.3, FCS) using Frank> the -Xmx parameter (which specifies a maximum heap size), Frank> the weird thing is that it does NOT hang which this Frank> parameter is either not specified OR specified but larger Frank> than a certain value. When it hangs, it always is stuck in Frank> a rt_sigsuspend call just after a clone() call. An example: Frank> [frank@behemoth frank]$ java Frank> (java starts and spits out some info, then exits as Frank> it should) Frank> [frank@behemoth frank]$ java -Xmx32m Frank> (java ALWAYS gets stuck: Frank> pipe([6, 7]) = 0 Frank> clone() = 14732 Frank> [pid 14679] write(7, "\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0~\266\2@ $T@\0 T@\0 T@\300\265\2@\0\0\0"..., 148) = 148 Frank> [pid 14679] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0 Frank> [pid 14679] write(7, "`S\3@\0\0\0\0\20\321\377\277pD\37@\30&\5\10\0\0\0\200\0"..., 148) = 148 Frank> [pid 14679] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0 Frank> [pid 14679] rt_sigsuspend([] Frank> ) Can you reproduce this without strace? I only see this problem when I run with 'strace -f' and java wants to exit (apart from that java works correctly). I don't see the dependency on the heap size here. Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html JVM'01: http://www.usenix.org/events/jvm01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]