From: Nicolas Vignal <nicolas.vignal@netline.fr>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>,
Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill@sourcegear.com>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: thread exit goes defunct
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01021317395100.07654@nicolas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s3in1bq3k48.fsf@debye.wins.uva.nl>
Wait and see...
Regards
Nicolas
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 12:20, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill@sourcegear.com> writes:
> > Nicolas Vignal wrote:
> > > Under gdb when a thread exit, he goes in the defunct state.
> >
> > I've been wondering about this too. Since the old threads don't die,
> > I quickly run out of processes, which makes debugging long-running
> > servers (which spawn new threads on new connections) difficult.
>
> This *is* caused by a long standing kernel bug. Alan Cox has promised
> to look into it if he can find the time, but it doesn't have a really
> high prority for him. Anyway, someone who does care should take this
> up with the kernel folks; see the attached message that I posted to
> the linux-kernel mailing list last december. I simply don't care
> enough to keep sending this stuff to the Linux kernel folks.
>
> Mark
>
> Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.com> writes:
...
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-12 7:19 Nicolas Vignal
2001-02-12 8:51 ` Shaw Terwilliger
2001-02-13 3:20 ` Mark Kettenis
2001-02-13 8:40 ` Nicolas Vignal [this message]
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