From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Galeon/1.3.11 Description of problem: run 'vmstat 1' for a few minutes, eventually this happens.. 3 0 2844 12900 150540 1028592 0 0 408 0 1011 9494 75 9 0 16 5 0 2844 10908 150616 1028764 0 0 252 0 1141 9792 76 16 0 8 open: No such file or directory error: failed to parse /proc/stats strace output shows... close(5) = 0 open("/proc/400/stat", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "400 (make) S 32726 32657 32389 3"..., 1023) = 213 close(5) = 0 open("/proc/410/stat", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) dup(2) = 5 fcntl64(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) task 410 exited during the running of vmstat (I've no idea what it was). There was a lot of process creation/death during this vmstat run as I was doing.. for i in * do cd $i cvs update cd .. done in my cvs mirror, and also a .. for i in * do cd $i make prep cd .. done in an unpacked rh package tree. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. vmstat 1 2. create/destroy lots of processes 3. wait Additional info:
Could you check procps-3.1.15?
its an ex-bug. it has ceased to be.. etc..