Re: 8139too: defunct threads

From: Rod Stewart (stewart@dystopia.lab43.org)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 14:37:11 EST


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rod Stewart wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Using the 8139too driver, 0.9.15c, we have noticed that we get a defunct
> > thread for each device we have; if the driver is built into the kernel.
> > If the driver is built as a module, no defunct threads appear.
>
> What is the parent PID for the defunct tasks? zero?

According to ps, 1

[root@stewart-nw34 networking]# ps alexw
  F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
044 0 14 1 9 0 0 0 do_exi Z ? 0:00 [eth0 <defunct>]
044 0 15 1 9 0 0 0 do_exi Z ? 0:00 [eth1 <defunct>]
044 0 16 1 9 0 0 0 do_exi Z ? 0:00 [eth2 <defunct>]
040 0 240 1 9 0 0 0 rtl813 SW ? 0:00 [eth0]

-Rms

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