Linux-2.5.17
Under 2.5.17 there is a problem with gtop 1.0.9. It opens a window but never fills in any details; there's just a blank background. The process becomes unkillable, even with -9, and although I can do a normal shutdown, the root partition can't be unmounted because the gtop process is still running and so fsck is forced on reboot. There are no oops messages that I can find in any of the logs.
Actually, this happens with all the most recent 2.5.x kernels. I'm not sure how far back it goes, but I believe it was working OK prior to 2.5.8. (If necessary I can try to narrow it down further.) It still works great with 2.4.19-pre8 and 2.4.19-pre8-ac5.
From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:52:08 -0500
Under 2.5.17 there is a problem with gtop 1.0.9.
The /proc/meminfo output changed, and this makes a lot of programs reading that file explode.
"David S. Miller" wrote:
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Under 2.5.17 there is a problem with gtop 1.0.9.
The
/proc/meminfooutput changed, and this makes a lot of programs reading that file explode.
No problem with file format breakage, but the programs "exploding" shouldn't get stuck unkillable by kill -9. looks like a kernel problem to me.
Helge Hafting