reassign 174521 noflushd retitle 174521 threads leave zombies when they terminate thanks
New information suggests that noflushd or the kernel is more likely than libc6 to be turning nice happy dying threads into evil undead zombies, as detailed in #174521. Although I'd only seen it happen on powerpc when I reported it, new evidence shows that 174521 is not unique to powerpc. It's reproducable on stock Debian kernels. Alexander Clouter (alexander.clouter (at) connectfree.co.uk) made the discovery that the behavior described in bug 174521 only starts when noflushd is enabled. Disabling noflushd and rebooting made this problem go away on systems that I was seeing it on. Starting noflushd made this problem appear on systems that it was never before seen on. The bug has already been reported upstream at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=695613&group_id=12257&atid=112257 -- William Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign B1FB C169 C7A6 238B 280B <- key change \ / No HTML in mail or news! 99AF A093 29AE 0AE1 9734 prev. expired X / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
