Re: sysrq+t doesn't work for some threads

From: Bernd Schubert
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 15:51:36 EST


On Monday 04 August 2008 21:46:30 Robert Hancock wrote:
> Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to debug a lustre problem, where lustre threads take 100% cpu time
> > and also have a memory leak. The problem is, that sysrq+t doesn't work
> > for these threads. It nicely shows all stack traces, just the trouble
> > some threads won't show their traces:
> >
> > [69338.858825] ll_mdt_36 R running task 0 21679 2 (L-TLB)
>
> This means this task is running, you won't get a stack trace for such a
> thread. You'd likely have to stop it somehow. Is this a kernel thread?

Yes, it is a kernel thread. How can I stop it? Is there a way to stop kernel
threads at all? kill -STOP doesn't work.


Thanks,
Bernd



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