On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:20:19PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: > >Hi, > >I have a server with some processes that are running away and they won't die. How >do I stop them? I used: > >ps axf to see the forest for the trees. >procmail was fired off by sendmail to filter some SPAM. >I can stop sendmail but procmail won't stop. > >Killall procmail doesn't work. >Killall -9 procmail doesn't work. >Killall -9 -v procmail sayes it is stopping procmail but it lies. >kill <procmail's PID> doesn't work. > >When I rebooted the server last night utilization was over 119. Normally it's >closer to 0.1 or 0.3. This morning before anyone logged in, it is just over 31.0. >This started the middle of last week. >
The process! I cannot kill it! I had this problem recently as well, and it was very, *very* annoying as cron had started some monster find jobs on a box that was acting as both a file server and a POP/IMAP server for a sixteen thousand user ISP. AFAICT jobs that are blocking on I/O will sit around waiting for their I/O to happen before they get to processing signals, even signal 9. I had to reboot the box to get those damn find jobs to go away. I suppose someone more 1337 than i might have been able to fiddle directly with the kernel process table... -- Christos anesti ek nekron Thanato thanaton patisas; Kai tis en tis mnimasi Zoin charisamenos! _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
