On Wednesday 12 January 2005 20:08, Daniel Nurmi wrote: > Greetings, > > We're currently running a course using UML to do some kernel > developement but have run into a confusing snag. Our host machines > are pretty much stock Fedora (FC2) boxes running kernel > 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp and our UML kernels are 2.4.27 (clean kernel source, > 2.4.27uml patch). > > When we start a process under UML, a corresponding kernel thread is > started on the host (which is normal and to be expected) but when the > process under UML exits the corresponding host thread does not exit > (which is not expected). After a short time, of course, the host is > swamped with thousands of processes, all of which exit cleanly when > the UML is halted or killed. > > I cannot replicate this behaviour on a clean 2.6.7, 2.6.7 SMP, or > 2.6.8 SMP kernel (on other systems) and our admin tells us that this > problem did not exist on these same machines running FC1. > > If anyone has any input about a cause or fix to this issue, I would be > greatly appreciative!
This is a FAQ about 2.6.9. There are some patches out there (search for fix-kill by C. Aker for the 2.4 backport of the fix). Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
