Zombie process and cyclic symlink: an interesting NAVI bug
I was wrapping up the NAVI 0.3.8 release when I noticed a navi process running with high CPU. Nothing crazy — a headless process that didn’t terminate, probably a stuck task. I went to investigate. The diagnosis btop showed two threads at ~70% CPU each. ps confirmed: 1 2 3 4 5 $ ps -p 425090 -L PID LWP TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 425090 425090 ? S 0:00 navi 425090 425124 ? R 10:28 tokio-rt-worker 425090 425125 ? R 10:27 tokio-rt-worker Two tokio-rt-worker threads with over 10 hours of accumulated CPU time. The main thread was sleeping (S). Those two were running (R) non-stop. ...