Most large companies are metric freaks. The load factor on this server
increments 1 2 3 with each stuck process, about one every couple of
weeks, as I mentioned before. You see my point. Management starts to
freak out because the server is overloaded..... It takes a reboot
(outage) to clear it. Also another negative metric.
Is it a technical problem? Not such a bad one no. Is it a political
problem? You bet. Maybe that is why NT doesn't even give you an
'uptime' command. You can't abuse what you don't have. :-)
Still, I don't want to see kernel bloat, and I'd of course like to find
the cause and fix it. In the meantime, I'm wondering about a module
that could be inserted, maybe with a /proc interface to trigger it
manually to 'clean' this stuff up? Doesn't effect people who don't need
it, and doesn't even have to be resident for those who do, except when
this happens.
I used to do some OS level programming on IBM big iron many years ago,
and I've recently purchased the 'Linux Device Drivers' book, so maybe I
will be able to move this along myself.
Anybody see a problem with my approach?
> > Linus, maybe it's an idea to include this paranoia code for
> > 2.2 as well. I know we should be solving the real bugs, but
> > on a production machine you'll also need fix-up code for when
> > you run into actual bugs...
>
> Please don't.
>
> This shows serious bug. Bug is visible enough (unkillable processes),
> but it is not fatal - they are almost harmless. You do not want to
> workaround this one (it is possible to live with few 'r'unning
> processes.)
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