Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

[Ken Moffat]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace, then
> move on to perf top -g -p <pid> (or perf record/report) to peek at what
> it's up to in the kernel.  Once you have the where, trace_printk() is
> the best thing since sliced bread (which ranks just below printk()).
> 
> -Mike
 Thanks.  I'll need to build perf.

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