þÿDe : Michael S.Zick <mszick@goquest.com>
Date : Mar 11 juin 2002  02:10:04  Europe/Paris
À : Thibaut VARENE <varenet@esiee.fr>, Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@uswest.net>
Cc : parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, grundler@cup.hp.com, Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
Objet : Rép : [parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa35 SMP process hangs on a J200

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 03:08 am, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> Le mardi 11 juin 2002, à 07:36 , Ryan Bradetich a écrit :
> > Digging into the system a bit, here is what I found:
> > 
> > 	* The setiathome process that hung (PID 326) will hang any other
> > 	  process that tries to access /proc/326/*.  (This is why top,
> > 	  ps, etc all hang after the process gets stuck).
Sirs...

I SEEM to experience a similar situation on 2.4.18-linux-x86-SMP using the 
P111-S processors (with 512K L2 cache).
Quite rare; evidently some very small window for failure.
I don't have any solid leads yet (although I have theories).

Just a note that it might not be HPPA specific.

Mike