From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261596AbTHYKRW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:17:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261656AbTHYKRV (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:17:21 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:37776 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261596AbTHYKRS (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:17:18 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH]O18.1int Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:17:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200308231555.24530.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030825094240.GJ16080@Synopsys.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4WxaZKuvSE0ddKpFSjK6X52T3A0= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Riesen writes: >> XEmacs still spins after running a background job like make or grep. >> It's fine if I reverse patch-O16.2-O16.3. The spinning doesn't happen >> as often, or as long time as with O16.3, but it's there and it's >> irritating. > > another example is RXVT (an X terminal emulator). Starts spinnig after > it's child has exited. Not always, but annoyingly often. System is > almost locked while it spins (calling select). It sounds like the same bug. IMHO, it's rather bad, since a non-privileged process can make the system unusable for a non-zero amount of time. How should I do to capture some information about this thing? Do you know what causes it, Con? -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net