Description of problem: We are seeing a problem where a thread in our application starts consuming all available cpu resources on the host. Our application is based on java and we are using Sun Microsystems jre release 1.4.0_00. The problem occurs within the java.lang.UnixProcessReaper module which runs in it's own thread and seems to receive SIGSEGV's in a loop (I straced it's process id (it happens within libc.o)). This is what seems to consume the cpu. Our application is fairly simple - it collects host status info by issuing linux commands like df etc. through java and reports the results back to a server (tcp/ip). In parallel we have been stressing the system by executing the Cerberus test suite. We are providing different release of Redhat Linux precanned for our customers based on Redhat 7.1, (7.2), 7.3 and AS2.1. Interestingly we only see this problem on AS2.1 - not on 7.1, 7.3 (we haven't done as much testing on 7.2 as with the other 3 releases) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.4.9-e.8enterprise glibc 2.2.4 Multiprocessor systems - 2 and 4 cpu machines (32 bit Intel) How reproducible: Run our client. Run Cerberus testsuite. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: If you have an idea how to further debug it - it would be much appreciated we will be able to leave a test system that is in the described state up and running for a while.
Does this still happen after the QU2 update, released at the end of May, which contained the e.24 kernel?
It's been over two weeks since I asked for more information. Thus, I am assuming that the errata did fix the problem, and closing it. If this is not the case, please reopen.