Re: [kernel 2.4.21-pre5 : process stuck in D state

From: Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 07:59:32 EST


On Wednesday 12 March 2003 12:27, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:

Hi Charles-Edouard,

> i've been running kernel 2.4.21-preX series for a while on my ASUS A7V8X
> motherboard ( with an athlon XP 2400+ ) and i've noticed the following
> annoying problem.
> Very often, mozilla ( 1.2.1 ) dies and is stuck in D state, waiting on a
> semaphore, here's the output of ps :
>
> ps -elf | grep mozill
> 000 S userX 2615 1462 0 69 0 - 972 wait4 00:50 ?
> 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
> 000 D userX 2621 2615 0 69 0 - 13623 down 00:50 ?
> 00:00:02 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
>
> Has anyone noticed the same behaviour ? Is this a well known problem ?
> Thanks for your help.
There is a patch from Andrea for a long long time now. You may try it.

ciao, Marc



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