Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:54:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, michaek@mail.ru Subject: Re: strange ps behaviour Message-ID: <200805270954.m4R9sBcH030826@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <483B99AF.4080508@mail.ru>
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Michael Lednev wrote: > Oliver Fromme ?????: > > Michael Lednev wrote: > > > # pgrep radiusd > > > 1105 > > > 33738 > > > # ps ax | grep radiusd > > > 1105 ?? Ss 2:35,76 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd > > > # ps 33738 > > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > > > > It seems that the second matching process exited before > > the ps command was executed. > > It's repeatable. That means that the radiusd process kept forking short- lived child processes, for whatever reason. > The problem solved by restarting radiusd but it's a > little undesirable. Sounds like a bug in radiusd was triggered somwhow. I don't think there's a problem with ps, because ps is unable to show processes that don't exist anymore. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "In My Egoistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton
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