On 10/19/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my main devel box, vanilla 2.6.23 on x86-64/Fedora-7, I'm seeing a > certain behavior at least once a day. I'll start a kernel build (make > -sj5 on this box), and it will "hang" in the following way: > > > 31003 ? S 0:04 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 > > 31004 pts/0 Ss 0:02 \_ -bash > > 8280 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ make ARCH=i386 -sj4 > > 8690 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 \_ [rm] <defunct> > > 8691 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh -c cat > > include/config/kernel.release 2> /dev/null > > 8692 pts/0 R+ 6:12 \_ cat include/config/kernel.release > > Specifically, the symptom is a process, often a simple one like cat(1) > or rm(1) or somewhere in check-headers, will stay in the running state, > accumulating CPU time. > > If I Ctrl-C the build, and start over, the build will normally -not- get > stuck at the same point, but proceed to chew through one of a bazillion > allmodconfig builds.
I *think* I'm seeing this with firefox under 2.6.23-rc6. I tried a `killall -SIGSTOP firefox; killall -SIGCONT firefox` and when I looked back it was back to life again, but that may have been a fluke. Regardless, try that the next time it happens? Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
