Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:27:08PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
>> I don't know what state it was in accept that it looked normal. Is 'S' select?
>>
>> An unreachable file? Hmm. How would I check that? There is a user there that can't
>> leave well enough alone.
>>
>> Any clue how to kill it?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>man ps
>PROCESS STATE CODES
> D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
> R runnable (on run queue)
> S sleeping
> T traced or stopped
> W paging
> X dead
> Z a defunct ("zombie") process
>
> For BSD formats and when the "stat" keyword is used, additional
> letters may be displayed:
>
>
> W has no resident pages
>
> < high-priority process
>
> N low-priority task
>
> L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
>
>
>Did you try
>kill -9 <pid>
>
>how about
>kill -STOP <pid>
>
>Cory
>_______________________________________________
Here is my orginal post:
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 -17 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.
--
Bob Crandell
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