Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:09:40 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: yuri@rawbw.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, babkin@verizon.net, jhell@DataIX.net Subject: Re: How can process in STOP state consume 200% CPU? Message-ID: <4e0ab394.THjNIl1%2Bj9sXmZ4f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3128F5.7030303@rawbw.com> References: <194213048.2218776.1309307083380.JavaMail.root@vznit170078> <3C3128F5.7030303@rawbw.com>
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Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > On 06/28/2011 17:24, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Most probably the process is running in an endless loop in the > > kernel mode ... 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? In kernel code, but not necessarily in the -STABLE kernel itself -- there could be a problem in a kernel module. I haven't checked, but would not be surprised if VirtualBox included one.
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