On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:47:57AM +0900, Kazuaki ODA wrote: > Hi, > > I ran the following two scripts simultaneously on 6.2-PRERELEASE SMP box > (cvsup'ed today). > > ---------------------------------------- > #!/bin/sh > > while true; do > ls -lR / > ls_result.txt > done > ---------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------- > #!/bin/sh > > while true; do > ls -lR / > ls_result2.txt > done > ---------------------------------------- > > After a while (about 5 minutes), I suspended and killed the both, and > ran "ps". As the result, "ps" locked up. No response and no output. > To make matters worse, I could not login anymore... > > This is 100% reproducable on SMP, but no problem when using Non-SMP kernel.
What state is ps in? Press ^T. It's probably a devfs lockup, which should be fixed by changes yet to be merged. Kris
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