Re: threads & /proc

[Luigi Genoni]

on 2.4.14 I could not do kill -9 -1 as root with success to kill
everything was running (very bad idea, but it was for tests :) ).

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Luke wrote:

> Here's some more data about the problem reported by Anton where "ps",
> "top", "killall", etc block and "kill" doesn't work.
>
> I have encountered this behaviour with kernels 2.4.14 and 2.4.16 but not
> 2.4.13 nor 2.4.7 (although 2.4.13 hung this box in a different way).
>
> This was observed on an SMP Pentium III, which does some multithreaded
> computation.
>
> I can't give precise instructions on how to replicate this bug, but
> perhaps it can be repeated simply by exercising kernel threading?
>
> Luke.
>
>
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