Hi Thomas, Thanks for the info, going to update source and compile :-)
-- Marcin Gondek / Drixter http://fido.e-utp.net/ AS56662 -----Original Message----- From: current-users-ow...@netbsd.org <current-users-ow...@netbsd.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Klausner Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 2:50 PM To: Marcin Gondek <drix...@e-utp.net> Cc: current-users@NetBSD.org Subject: Re: unkillable htop Hi Marcin! That seems to be caused by a problem in posix_spawn and is now handled in https://gnats.netbsd.org/59175 Cheers, Thomas On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 01:13:24PM +0000, Marcin Gondek wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I've noticed the same, did you find the solution? > > Thanks, > > > -- > Marcin Gondek / Drixter > http://fido.e-utp.net/ > AS56662 > > -----Original Message----- > From: current-users-ow...@netbsd.org <current-users-ow...@netbsd.org> > On Behalf Of Thomas Klausner > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2025 7:58 PM > To: current-users@NetBSD.org > Subject: unkillable htop > > Hi! > > I wanted to try out sysutils/htop on 10.99.12/x86_64, looking at how much a > process is growing by filtering the process list and only showing that > process. That worked fine. When I was done, I wanted to quit htop, but F10 > didn't make it exit. > > - 'kill'ing the process didn't help. It was still there. > > - 'kill -9'ing the process didn't help. It was still there. > > - Not even when I tried it as root. > > - renice claims it can change the process' priority, but it's was > still eating 99% CPU during a bulk build, so I'm not sure how much > that helped. > > 11928: old priority 0, new priority 20 second try: > 11928: old priority 20, new priority 20 so it seemed to have an > effect. > > top says: > 11928 wiz 25 0 15M 2484K CPU/15 432:48 99.02% 99.02% htop > > ps -auxwww said: > wiz 11928 99.0 0.0 15720 2484 pts/7- O 12:38nachm. > 429:43.76 htop > > I tried attaching to it with gdb, now ps -auxwww says: > wiz 11928 99.0 0.0 15720 2484 pts/7- OX 12:38nachm. > 433:03.93 htop > > but gdb doesn't make it process, it stopped at ... > Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... > Reading symbols from htop... > Attaching to program: /usr/pkg/bin/htop, process 11928 > > > At least I can kill that gdb: > [ 374957.7575874] sorry, pid 11928 was killed: orphaned traced process > zsh: killed gdb htop 11928 > > What's going wrong here? > > How can I make the process quit? > > Thanks, > Thomas
