Hi, > It seems that instead of getting stuck in the kernel where I > thought it would, the process gets stuck elsewhere and > also tends to loop allocating memory until all memory in the > machine is exhausted and the OOM killer starts to try and > kill processes left and right. at least it runs with 100% CPU, attaching strace to the pid doesn't give any results.... strace-ing the whole process doesn't result in more useful output, but the hanging processes were killable when they were running under strace... Cheers, Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html