Subject: Re: [vserver] Context without process
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:31 +0200

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:16:33PM +0200, Oliver Welter wrote:
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> Hi All,

> strange issue here - I got a kernel oops when mounting the rootfs of a
> vserver, no I see this:

> vserver-stat
> CTX   PROC    VSZ    RSS  userTIME   sysTIME    UPTIME NAME
> 18       0   120K     0    0m02s40   0m02s60  34m22s40

not unexpected, the kernel traced and the context
is locked, regardless of the process count

> Any idea how to kill it without rebooting the node?

not really possible without hacking into kernel
memory, it's the same as when you get a zombie
from such a kernel trace/oops

probably the easiest is to move the guest to a
new context till you reboot

best,
Herbert

> Kernel: 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7
> VS-API: 0x00020200
> util-vserver: 0.30.216-pre2772; Jan 16 2009, 14:47:20

> Oliver
> 
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