From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200309291750.h8THojfr001310@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Subject: Re: zombies In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:43:30 PDT." <20030929094330.15485106.akpm@osdl.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <32F7E536759ED611BBA9001083CFB165C07333@savion.cc.huji.ac.il> <20030929094330.15485106.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_660582116P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:50:42 -0400 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Liviu Voicu , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --==_Exmh_660582116P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:43:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > ah, OK. What happens if you do a `patch -R -p1' using > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test6/2.6 .0-test6-mm1/broken-out/call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch ? That fixes up the problem here as well. Also, note that it wasn't just the Synaptics driver: ps alwx|grep Z F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 0 290 3 6 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 292 3 5 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 294 3 5 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 296 3 5 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 298 3 6 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 300 3 6 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 0 0 578 3 6 -10 0 0 do_exi Z< ? 0:00 [ifup ] 1 0 1029 3 6 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 0 0 1216 3 5 -10 0 0 ct> Z< ? 0:00 [net.agent ] 1 0 1227 3 5 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] 1 0 1229 3 6 -10 0 0 t> Z< ? 0:00 [events/0 ] The ifup was probably attached to either a wireless or Xircom ethernet card, the net.agent was probably from a PPP connection starting up (based on the PID of the process). --==_Exmh_660582116P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/eHDycC3lWbTT17ARArXSAJ95d4hlQDCkcG/ekMQBFBagDGos4QCg56y/ gXaq86DP7nrs34q0x3TfRDY= =p1SJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_660582116P-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org