From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 14:24:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDD037BA60 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4ELugx23179; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:56:41 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's killing my processes? Message-ID: <20000514145641.O28383@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:05:27AM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Andrew McNaughton [000514 09:38] wrote: > > Something seems to be knocking off various processes on my server with the > equivalent of a 'kill -9'. This has included processes run from the shell > as root (make, pico) and some cron jobs. I'm guessing there's more, but > those are the ones I have a little information on. > > The only thing I can think of that might do something like this is > resource limits, but that seems unlikely to hit pico in mid use on a small > file, and there's no apparent resource crunch going on. I think I can > rule this out. Is there any other reason the kernel itself might issue > KILL signals? > > How can I get information on what's going on? Is there some way I can put > in a trace on any KILL signals issued on the system so I can identify the > culprit process (or kernel)? I can get a list of killed processes from > the system accounting (lastcomm), but I need the signal type and source. > > Any ideas? Giving us the version of FreeBSD you're running usually helps, with that noted there was a pretty serious bug a while back where some system daemon would incorrectly send signals to processes it shouldn't have. I would recommend an upgrade to -stable. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message