From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 3 5:14:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B6C14E16 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 05:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA09243 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:14:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:14:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Leftover processes using as much CPU as they can get Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have noticed in the past few weeks of tracking -STABLE that I regularly see processes not terminating properly. For example, I have a perl+curses-based menu system for several users on my system. Just about any day of the week I can come in to my normally idle system and see a few hanging perl5's in the run state all using as much CPU as the system will let them (this morning I saw four, all using about 22% CPU.) kill -9 will safely get rid of them. I don't have a lot of details yet; I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or if it's probably my poor old 486 just getting ready to die. If anyone else has seen this I will be happy to start investigating further. Matt Behrens Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message