Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:21:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), kkenn@rebel.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unkillable processes Message-ID: <199907250621.BAA55777@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <19990725154108.A51019@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 25, 1999 03:41:09 pm"
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> On Saturday, 24 July 1999 at 20:51:37 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > >> 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) > >> > > Well, since the CPU time in the active process (92724) went up since your > > last e-mail, and it's in the RUN state (a - in the WCHAN and a R in the > > STAT), it looks like the process is just spinning, eating CPU. > > Right. > > > The tcsh listed below that is a zombie of the running kvt. > > There aren't any zombies here. > > It's a child of the kvt. It's not a zombie. Take a look at the STAT > field (and ps(1)): process Good point, i didn't notice that, i saw the ()'s from his first message, > Process 92724 is runnable, nice and running (no WCHAN). I really > don't understand why you can't stop this one. The only time I've seen this is when my console is getting flooded with 'vm_fault: pager error' messages for that process. Otherwise, there's no reason why a running process can't be killed, correct? Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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