Re: gdb strangness Under 2.3.11-pre1

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:59:53 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 Daniel.Egger@t-online.de wrote:

> Pay attention to PID 2,3 and 4... The are exactly the processes which
> exist a few lines below. The machine starts to get very sluggish and
> to swap continuosly...
>
> Any idea?

Alexander Viro's patch plus the one I just posted against it fixes that.
Processes 2 and 3 are 'lazy', in that we don't bother with TLB flushes for
them. The problem was that /proc didn't know not to look in tsk->mm for
lazy tasks.

Tim.
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