On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > ps hangs, cannot complete (not ^C). > same goes for top and for killall. > > This looks like some process is in uniterruptable sleep, but without PS, > I cannot find out who. > > ls /proc doesn't list too long. > > There is one process that, if I try to "ls -la" in it's proc dir, hangs > the ls process. Other processes are ok. > > Ideas, anyone? I don't even know how to find out which process it was (i > have a general idea, due to the fact that I tried to kill services, and > some of them hung).
It's probably the process that hangs ps or ls /proc/PID. I have this issue with svgalib when I use the mmap method in svgalib's kernel driver. I think it happens when the vma chain gets corrupted. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
