From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 21:56:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 8179516A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:56:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CECA43D45 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:56:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7181A3C20; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 554C551DA0; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:56:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:56:09 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20060215215608.GA55676@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1140027060.83368.11.camel@r4.agava-guns.domain> <20060215194204.GC70956@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060215194204.GC70956@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Ivan Kolosovskiy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:56:11 -0000 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 15), Ivan Kolosovskiy said: > > i have strange deadlocked(?) process on my system. > >=20 > > top: > >=20 > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > > 38410 findfile 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0 0:00 0.00% grotty > >=20 > > ps: > >=20 > > host$ ps -waux | grep grotty > > findfile 38410 0,0 0,0 0 0 p6 REJ 19:57 0:00,25 [grott= y] >=20 > E in the STAT column means the process is trying to exit, but can't. > What does "ps lp 38410" print? The MWCHAN column should say where in > the kernel the process is stuck. I often see this too. For example: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 5357 kkenn 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0:00 0.35% xpdf > ps -waux | grep xpdf kkenn 5357 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?? RE Sun08PM 0:00.20 [xpdf] > ps lp 5357 UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > Kris --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD86N4Wry0BWjoQKURAuUzAJ0fCrs306YCq/4LOplW7r93PC+AqwCdFvGU ENuXg/af/gO0mjAdf0LYNpI= =xTbZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--