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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:48:51 -0000
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
Cc:        jhell@DataIX.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can process in STOP state consume 200% CPU?
Message-ID:  <3C3128F5.7030303@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <194213048.2218776.1309307083380.JavaMail.root@vznit170078>
References:  <194213048.2218776.1309307083380.JavaMail.root@vznit170078>

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On 06/28/2011 17:24, Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> (Sorry about quoting, it doesn't always work well from the web client).
> Most probably the process is running in an endless loop in the kernel 
> mode.
> Where it got after entering the STOP state. Remember, the signals are 
> processed
> only after the process exits from the kernel mode to the user mode, 
> and so are the
> scheduling states. While it's in the kernel mode, you can't do anything
> to it other than use the kernel debugger.

How is this normally possible to make program to loop in kernel mode on 
-STABLE kernel? Doesn't this mean bug in kernel?

Yuri




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