On 2008-05-24 16:40:02 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: > Since you're on a rarer architecture that doesn't see so much Linux > kernel debugging, I'd be inclined to look at what has changed in the > kernel's architecture-specific signal handling code. (But see below).
I don't know if the bug is new. I've never killed vlc in such a way in the past. The current kernel is linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc 2.6.24-7. > Further, it's strange that zombies are contributing to load average; if > zsh is gone (killed off and no longer even possibly stuck in a tight > loop) and there's the zombie and init left, then there shouldn't be > anything contributing to load avg. Yes, that's strange. > If you use tools such as top(1), what processes are they attributing the > load to? None, and the CPU is idle: top - 02:31:55 up 22:19, 6 users, load average: 4.09, 4.24, 4.25 Tasks: 117 total, 1 running, 115 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 255432k total, 233456k used, 21976k free, 3004k buffers Swap: 524280k total, 22820k used, 501460k free, 105548k cached (The zombie is vlc.) > Is the high load average confirmed by vmstat reports of idle > CPU, or is the load avg really out of sync with CPU reality? Here's vmstat output: ay:~> vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 22820 26456 5520 99688 0 0 15 35 30 196 8 1 88 3 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
