>
> > > Just wondering if anybody has had moz hanging on them and hanging
> > > 'ps -ax'
> > > (which means /proc/kmem reading is hung, IIRC)?
> >
> > Modern Linux "ps" does not use /proc/kmem. Do a "strace ps" to see.
> > Maybe /proc/12345/stat or /proc/12345/status is hanging.
>
> Thanks; if I can get this to be reproduced again I'll try. If read() on
> stat or status is hanging, something is very wrong, though, right?
Probably you ran into the bug Ulrich Weigand found:
access_process_vm can deadlock, especially with multithreaded apps.
Access_process_vm is used by /proc/*/cmdline.
It's fixed in 2.4.10.
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