[ltp] Java Zombies

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> I run a java app for a while, stop it, start it, do things with it
> (development tasks...) and suddenly java becomes defunct.
> 
> all running java processes are zombies and no trick will kill them. java gui
> stays onscreen but doesen't refresh.
> 
> and, even more strange: while CPUs stay at about 2 to 8% activity load
> increases. it's at 7 now after around 2 minutes

Your kernel is hosed, and filesystems might be too.  This is very very bad,
get a memtest boot image, check the memory, then get a simple kernel that is
thrustworthy into the machine (no patches and no proprietary drivers that
taint the kernel), and do a complete filesystem check on all filesystems.

> [ 2134.493000] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_request_row: bad end STR3: (0x11:0x00)->0x80

Not Good!  Remove thinkpad_ec for now on this machine.  We can work on that
angle later.

After you made sure your memory and filesystems are ok, try a kernel
*without suspend2* (known broken in some machines right now) and *without
tp_smapi* (your machine is not liking it).  See if that fixes the issues
you've observed, and report back...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh