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What does the "ps ex" says for that process ? Which state it shows ? running,sleeping,zombie,traced ?? try kill -HUP pid or kill -TERM pid , lastly kill -9 pid Richard Correia Development Manager Unitek Information Systems Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ILUG-Bom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] killing dead processes > **************************************** > * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI > **************************************** > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:29:01AM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > > > Our server seems to have run into a problem ... there's a dead process > > with an RSS of 2GB, and it refuses to die no matter what! > > > > The swap is down to zero, the machine is thrashing, but we can't > > afford to restart! > > We had kept the server running in this state overnight, with kswapd > running at full priority - it's using around 40% CPU time - but no > results! I guess it's time to restart the server. > > How can I get more info about what happened to the server? The user > involved says he just aborted some process with "Ctrl-C" but it > refused to go away - it was some really heavy program, related to some > project work of his. Is there anything information about the system > that I should save before I restart? > > Sameer. > -- > MTech Student, > Reconfigurable Computing Lab, > KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are a bundle of energy, always on the go. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
