Subject: Re: "parked" processes?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/2007 13:41:07
I earlier said that this problem had gone away after I recompiled
everything, but I was wrong.  I still encounter hands in which firefox
is unresponsive, and most of its lwps are in "parked" state.

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Andrew Doran wrote:
> If someone could make available to me a coredump from an app in this state,
> along with version info (from the system and the app) it would be really
> helpful.

Sorry, the core dump would contain sensitive information.  Here is some
information from ps:

$ uname -srm
NetBSD 4.99.20 i386
$ pkg_info -e firefox
firefox-2.0.0.4
$ pgrep firefox-bin
5412
$ ps -l -p 5412
  UID  PID PPID CPU PRI NI    VSZ RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY    TIME COMMAND
10001 5412    1   0 -13  0 116360 344 parked IWl  ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg/lib/fire
$ ps -s -p 5412
  UID  PID PPID CPU LID NLWP PRI NI    VSZ RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY    TIME COMMAND
10001 5412    1   0  92    8  28  0 116360 344 -      ZW-  ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0  13    8  -8  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0  10    8 -12  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0   6    8 -14  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0   5    8 -14  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0   3    8 -13  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0   2    8   2  0 116360 344 poll   DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg
10001 5412    1   0   1    8 -13  0 116360 344 parked DW   ?   0:00.00 /usr/pkg

--apb (Alan Barrett)