From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 19:22:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7B337B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E164F43FA3 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158])h772Fv88007565; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:15:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h772LvOQ046345; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:21:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kevin Oberman In-Reply-To: <20030805145445.A1CAC5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030805145445.A1CAC5D07@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6qA8aLwOksNei+xmt9Sn" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1060222947.7828.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:22:28 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hung processes in STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 02:22:40 -0000 --=-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--