Re reproduction: When you create the file (e.g. by write(2) system calls), the process gets stuck at some point when it goes over a threshold, suspected to be 4GB, though my file was actually 5GB.
Then I tried to kill the process (no effect) and then kill -9, which made it zombie. Then I killed its parent so init (pid 1) inherited it. Then nothing. init did not reap it and I have not killed init because I thought it may be more interesting to investigate before reboot. Cheers, --Sampo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913787 Title: Defunct process consumes all CPU, init does not reap To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/913787/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
