After a time, kmod is becoming a zombie process -- I noticed it after
I tried to mount my MSDOS partition, and it just sat there. The machine
didn't hang, and I was able to open another rxvt and kill it off.
I tried modprobing fat and msdos manually, but it still sat there for
a while. It eventually (after a minute or so) mounted the dos partition.
I rebooted, and worked off it a while. Noticed that x11amp was telling
me that it couldn't open the audio device. ps'ing revealed kmod zombied
again.
When it's in that state, lsmod barks out some warning that it cant find
LS_<something> or similar to that.
None of this happened with 90pre1 and 90pre2.
No, I'm not using the multiple kmod requests patch.
I've had kerneld die before from memory exhaustion (I run 16Mb RAM + 17Mb
swap ; and Netscape swaps mightily) ; but at least I could always restart
it w/o rebooting. If you're gonna put kerneld-functionality in the kernel
it had better work, or at least give you some way of resetting the whole
thing if something goes wrong.
Mark Orr
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