From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1654 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Buland Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit not collecting zombies Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:33 -0700 Organization: Geek Gene Message-ID: <200802251020.33787.mike@geekgene.com> References: <46561ABE.7030008@podgorny.cz> <59012.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203952988.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203960078 2578 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 17:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-1889-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Feb 25 18:21:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTh1B-00088x-0c for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:21:33 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5093 invoked by uid 76); 25 Feb 2008 17:21:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 5080 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2008 17:21:20 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <59012.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203952988.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1654 Archived-At: On Monday 25 February 2008 08:23:08 am Radek Podgorny wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Alex Efros wrote: > >> Only possible "explanation" which come in my mind is some CPU/RAM usage > >> pattern which is happens while compiling all these packages somehow > >> affect > >> runit-init. > > > > ... or the kernel. > > How can it be the kernel when the system was not rebooted? I doubt this is the case, but the kernel has supported "kexec" for a while, it's bizzare, but it allows a kernel to be restarted or replaced while running. I seriously doubt that this was used, but I think it's an interesting feature. Think of it as a fun-fact :) > > >> P.S. Gerrit: runit is really cool, but this bug (unfixed for about a > >> year!) > >> drives me crazy... :( > > > > If it's a kernel bug, then Gerrit won't be able to fix it.