From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 17:03:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8371E16A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA9F43FAF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:03:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tristan11@mindspring.com) Received: from h-68-164-25-38.snvacaid.covad.net ([68.164.25.38] helo=mindspring.com) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19rnmb-0007CK-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:03:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:03:27 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Michelle To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030826234358.GB16039@freshaire.wiz.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: idle process status X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:03:31 -0000 Could anyone please tell me what might cause a process to enter an I status or idle status. I had two cron jobs which did not run a few nights ago, specifically the daily run output and aide. The next day when I looked at the status of the jobs with the ps aux command, it stated that the status was I or idle for both of these cron jobs. I was unable to kill the jobs even with kill -9 and had to reboot the server. Now everything is fine and the cron jobs ran again last night; however, I would like to know what might cause this so I can prevent it from happening again. Thank you, Michelle