Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:39:18 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jerry Raynor <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: run away process!!!! Message-ID: <199901300039.QAA22649@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:24:02 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9901291918050.19766-100000@uw>
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>I have a run a way process.... > >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND >root 2 14.6 0.1 0 12 ?? DL 2:50AM 30:03.33 (pagedaemon) > >I've tried 'kill 2' and 'kill -9 2' > >its still running.... what should I do and what is this?? The pagedaemon is a kernel process that manages memory and cannot be killed. If it is using a lot of CPU time, then it is because your system is heavily paging. You can fix this by adding more RAM to your machine. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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