On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote: > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet > reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. When this happens, > kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs when trying to attach to > the process. The same with gdb. ps shows the process as being in the R > state. > > I pressed Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-T, and this was shown for pan: > Jan 21 21:45:01 Anastacia kernel: pan R running task 0
Well I've twice tried to submit a patch to print stacks for running tasks as well, but nobody seems interested. It would at least give a chance to see something. Can you post a few Sysrq+P traces? -- 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/