Re: ps -ax hang with Mozilla in 2.4.9

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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> > Just wondering if anybody has had moz hanging on them and hanging 'ps -ax'
> > (which means /proc/kmem reading is hung, IIRC)?
>
> Modern Linux "ps" does not use /proc/kmem. Do a "strace ps" to see.
> Maybe /proc/12345/stat or /proc/12345/status is hanging.

Thanks; if I can get this to be reproduced again I'll try. If read() on
stat or status is hanging, something is very wrong, though, right?

Take care,

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