On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> on ia64 HEAD,  gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command
> hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU,
> yeat CPU time is zero:
> 
>   PID    UID    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 60071   1001      2  48    0 98008K 51424K CPU1    1   0:00 100.00% gnuplot
> 
> kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root,
> has no effect, the process is still there.
> 
> I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot.
> 
> This seems to be a regression.

running gnuplot in batch (non-interactive) mode seems fine, so
the problem seems to be with the screen terminal.

I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that I cannot kill the process..

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Anton Shterenlikht
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