Subject: Re: Processes in state "sawait"
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/21/2005 06:02:24
hi,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:14:16PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuq,
> 
> I was running three threaded apps with your latest changes
> to libpthread and after 8 hours working perfectly, one app
> changed its state to "sawait". The app couldn't be killed, and
> I had to reboot the machine.
> 
> Kernel is very very recent:
...

> Do you have any idea what's wrong?

nope, I haven't seen that myself.  if it happens again,
please try to get a coredump of the process with gcore
and then a crash dump of the system.

-Chuck