**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > 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. have your tried attaching to the process using strace ? that might give some clue where it's stuck. -Rajesh -- I think my career is ruined! -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
