From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 18:40:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC8A1065679 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:40:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443FD8FC19 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.yuri.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5SIXwS2008660 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4E0A201D.9000601@rawbw.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:40:29 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101211 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How can process in STOP state consume 200% CPU? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:40:30 -0000 I got VirtualBox process in a strange state. It has the status STOP but shows by top as consuming 200% CPU for a very long time. How is this possible and what does this mean? Process time stays at 0:00 TIME. kill -9 doesn't kill it. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME CPU COMMAND 9390 yuri 3 44 0 508M 246M STOP 3 0:00 200.00% VirtualBox <...> 8.2-STABLE Yuri