Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:22:28 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hung processes in STABLE Message-ID: <1060222947.7828.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030805145445.A1CAC5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030805145445.A1CAC5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-6qA8aLwOksNei+xmt9Sn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:54, Kevin Oberman wrote: > For the past three weeks (this is really a guess as I just noticed it > last week) I have been seeing many processes started in terminal > windows that are no longer in existence. They were started using > something like: > gnome-terminal -x weather.pl -wr > where weather.pl is a simple Perl script that prints a text file and > periodically updates it by clearing the screen and re-writing the file > to get the latest data. >=20 > When the terminal session is terminated (by logging out of the > session), the Perl process is left running in an IWs+ state and > it can't be killed. This did not happen in the past. It slowly eats up > resources, especially pseudo-terminals. >=20 > Any idea what might be causing this? I'm seeing this on -STABLE, too. Try rebuilding vte and gnometerminal.=20 I tend to thing there might have been some change on -STABLE that may have triggered this. I'm not seeing the same behavior on -CURRENT with the same versions of vte and gnometerminal, though I just set up that machine, so all binaries have been recently compiled. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-6qA8aLwOksNei+xmt9Sn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/Mbfjb2iPiv4Uz4cRAmTJAJ46p/8IcG81AHAFH4Xsoshl5BxxsgCfVH5h JhNvOfO+I4J7RqJZzwLy8Go= =hqtQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6qA8aLwOksNei+xmt9Sn--
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