Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:15:24 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unkillable processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907251109290.20318-100000@morden.rebel.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199907250138.UAA06405@celery.dragondata.com>
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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > For one, do another 'ps' with the 'l' option, so you can see what it's stuck > on. UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1000 1103 1086 29 75 20 5740 384 - TWN ?? 0:00.00 (kvt) 1000 1109 1103 0 4 0 1504 0 ttywri IWs+ p1 0:00.00 (tcsh) 1000 92724 1086 279 105 20 5736 356 - RN ?? 139:40.13 kvt -T Termi 1000 92743 92724 2 18 0 1576 0 pause IWs p8 0:00.00 (tcsh) > The second process is a zombie, which isn't killable until the parent tells > it to go away. (Which could very possibly be the first kvt) Both still present empty terminal windows on my desktop and were spawned from the KDE panel. The second one was running a copy of pine and was in the same state as the other initially, until I kill -KILL'ed the pine process, at which point it changed to what it is now. Kris > Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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