From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 12:57:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24640 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from krell.webweaver.net (krell.webweaver.net [206.24.106.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24606 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freelist@krell.webweaver.net) Received: (from freelist@localhost) by krell.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13093 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:00:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nicole H." Message-Id: <199805292000.NAA13093@krell.webweaver.net> Subject: No! I refuse to die! To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:00:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone I have been having a problem lately where I seem to get processes that get stuck and refuse to die or be killed. The usual symptom is that users cannot login even via the console, however root can via the console. If I use top, I will see some user processes that look odd, and I cannot kill them. Nor can I kill the users shell process. It doesn't happen that often but it is definatly getting anoying. I tried dropping the amount of process usage a user can have via login.conf It is FreeBSD 2.1.6 on a Pentium pro200 with 128 Megs of memory. Any advice on what to try would be greatly appreciatted Thanks! Nicole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message