Unkillable java process BAD!

[Anton Solovyev]

Peter Eddy wrote:

>> I have got Fedora Core 2 Release installed on a new HP DL380 2-cpu box.
>>
>> Tried to install a product with a Java installer and it hung. Which 
>> is ok. What's not ok is that one of the Java processes became 
>> unkillable with -KILL and sat on one of the 4 "CPUs" forever.
>>
>> I guess, SMP is not quite there yet?
>
>
> Could be you're running into a Java-related problem reported earlier 
> on this list (quoted below.) FC1 and SMP is certainly fine though, I 
> use that combination to develop very large Java applications. I 
> haven't had a chance to upgrade my development machine to FC2, though 
> I may wait until these problems are resolved.


Sounds very much like my problem. Kinda scary when you lock up the 
kernel by simply running a very common user process....

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Anton Solovyev