Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:50:19 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Un-kill-able process hang at umtxpi state with 100% cpu Message-ID: <5510606B.2010400@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1427134474819-5999426.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1427109169038-5999345.post@n5.nabble.com> <1427134474819-5999426.post@n5.nabble.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2015/03/23 18:14, BBlister wrote: > Following an advice from a user of this list, > I did a > > kill -STOP 35662 > > in order to minimize the CPU consumption > > and as soon as I hit enter the process disappeared (died). I had already > killed its parent, but > it was not possible to kill this process. By sending the STOP signal it was > killed. Are you sure? STOP usually does exactly what it says on the tin. It's like Ctrl-Z in the shell. You can in theory use 'kill -CONT pid' to wake the process up again. If the process died from a SIGSTOP it must be because there were other pending signals that could somehow be delivered once the process was stopped, but that strikes me as pretty odd. Cheers, Matthew [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVEGByAAoJEABRPxDgqeTn6yoP/RhqA9z4VQ2yWAKycGAR3F/F +Ml5jJ6CdSOdvgFrR9dtnVHQM1xBb6Cl0A4F1ScL7YI0uhfuAeqbMXhD5hFgTbca siRs5CKyLl2IhFTwenaTJSsRldhtqnjPE8kihFgTLjOHNRQCPOi3b3hm5rGpdiaB /JR2qZFAF4BeN0Ytln4xlbdwVTobbl1l9ynTdJz0Osshre8wRfs6EWvxCAxKjzLO eXZ5czRjITPUfR+L86++NUs/OMIPuiIHnIh3cWH71QyCShv+q9hlqVs7jp8gkGS/ yVx8DHnfoibcWMqS+/zzkrd69b85nkqojVmS7SZlM7dBywIfkzHDps40Bw9TeM6P 0BqKmwp7MBgWN7xGWeSC1OHRktqJcmfS92xbc7ZnHm6WV/+J3a7ZIxxIcZc5GT4C DBBC2q5fAqtrIflTofltWfSDaK8ubaPilXsjfNBmzN/t4q0vsl7XiaxXze8+jEkC mLdW/6TyKuCQQN3uGG11dJJzwRSvQfU/RKRxaVhCxYR2Q4GbfmPnIb4rHJdlllr8 b8W7BgY/cJIyI+dd0JYdRwafPhYp5l6jK7E+8mbTZZXSdqmgnM+CGcNfBr4ZMbVR AD3sIKY0ZAf9RhpxUNleoh2MDMXKV25CiyUmGNbuOfMwkwpmrNJBo2ArlPvIDX0j Vj4sSmHlbExzinMn2Lu9 =kQRf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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