2.1.125 problems (init generating high load)

Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode@picasso.uib.no)
Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:19:34 +0100


Cyrix 6x86 100 MHz, glibc 2.0.7, kernel compiled without SMP, redhat 5.1
mostly...

I'm having some problems with 2.1.125, it's happened a couple of times now.
init's load goes up, I don't get to log in or out on. The logout just
hangs, login hangs after I type my login. Everything kind of becomes living
dead.. :)

I probably woun't even get to use shutdown normally, to get things back to
normal. Will probably have to SysRq...

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1 root 18 0 8372 7360 132 R 0 94.1 11.6 9:48 init

bash$ ps aux|grep zombie
janfrode 342 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 02:15 0:00 (login <zombie>)
janfrode 811 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:00 (startx <zombie>)
janfrode 819 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:00 (sh <zombie>)
janfrode 832 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:07 (rxvt <zombie>)
janfrode 833 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:00 (asload <zombie>)
janfrode 836 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:00 (wmppp <zombie>)
janfrode 840 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:02 (rt <zombie>)
janfrode 842 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 1:45 (xearth <zombie>)
janfrode 844 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 0:01 (tcsh <zombie>)
janfrode 860 1.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:11 2:10 (panel <zombie>)
janfrode 944 1.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:12 2:07 (netscape <zombie>)
janfrode 1012 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:55 0:01 (mutt <zombie>)
janfrode 1016 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:56 0:00 (tcsh <zombie>)
janfrode 9388 0.0 0.0 0 0 3 Z 12:49 0:00 (find <zombie>)
janfrode 9391 0.0 0.0 0 0 3 Z 12:49 0:00 (sendmail <zombie>)
janfrode 9393 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:49 0:00 (sendmail <zombie>)
root 345 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 02:15 0:00 (mingetty <zombie>)

Please ask if I should give more details...

-- 
Regards, 
Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@kunst.uib.no>

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