Re: SHM -isn't- broken, something else is

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 03:16:15 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:36:26PM -0800, david wrote:

> The problem is that processes get stuck in D state and unfortunately I can't
> see what they are waiting on.

(Sorry, I've not looked at your mail in detail, but...) If the IKD patches
apply cleanly, you could use the semaphore deadlock detection to create an
oops after ~20secs and get a backtrace. I think Andrea uploads them to
ftp.*.kernel.org these days.

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