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To: Jerry Raynor <jerryr@ComCAT.COM>
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Subject: Re: run away process!!!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:24:02 EST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:39:18 -0800
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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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