Re: Processes hanging on 2.0.20; not just on Alphas anymore :(
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:40:06 +0100 (BST)
> Odd. I posted about Apache 1.1.1 doing something similar last night. It
> went into state R, started chewing large % of CPU, and refused to die. I
> ended up going into /proc/3261/fd and finding and rm'ing one of the
> files that was open (presumably being served by the process before it went
> crazy). Immediately after the rm, the process died. This was under
> 2.0.18.
Yep. I think this is another manifestation of the file locking stuff that
locks SMP in 2.0.20, but in a differently annoying guise. Linus posted some
changes to avoid this problem so hopefully .21 will fix it
Alan