On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Mark Orr wrote:
>
> I've run 2.1.90pre3 for a couple of long sessions in the last 2 days...
> after a while, I noticed that some things (like mount, sound programs)
> would stop working.
>
> After a time, kmod is becoming a zombie process -- I noticed it after
> I tried to mount my MSDOS partition, and it just sat there. The machine
> didn't hang, and I was able to open another rxvt and kill it off.
>
> I tried modprobing fat and msdos manually, but it still sat there for
> a while. It eventually (after a minute or so) mounted the dos partition.
>
> I rebooted, and worked off it a while. Noticed that x11amp was telling
> me that it couldn't open the audio device. ps'ing revealed kmod zombied
> again.
>
> When it's in that state, lsmod barks out some warning that it cant find
> LS_<something> or similar to that.
>
> None of this happened with 90pre1 and 90pre2.
>
> No, I'm not using the multiple kmod requests patch.
>
> I've had kerneld die before from memory exhaustion (I run 16Mb RAM + 17Mb
> swap ; and Netscape swaps mightily) ; but at least I could always restart
> it w/o rebooting. If you're gonna put kerneld-functionality in the kernel
> it had better work, or at least give you some way of resetting the whole
> thing if something goes wrong.
>
> Mark Orr
>
>
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