Re: test12 + initrd = swapper at 99.8% CPU timer

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@wen-online.de)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 22:00:47 EST


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Joseph Cheek wrote:

> hi,
>
> ps axufw shows it as pid 1.

Interesting.. init running out of control. I've seen that, and it
was init taking endless page faults.

I wager (one virtual brew) that you'll see an endless stream of output
if you apply this.

--- kernel/signal.c.org Fri Dec 15 03:36:59 2000
+++ kernel/signal.c Fri Dec 15 03:39:36 2000
@@ -564,6 +564,9 @@
 {
         unsigned long int flags;
 
+ if (sig == SIGSEGV)
+ printk(KERN_ERR "SIGSEGV pid %d\n", t->pid);
+
         spin_lock_irqsave(&t->sigmask_lock, flags);
         if (t->sig == NULL) {
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&t->sigmask_lock, flags);

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