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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

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