On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 15), Ivan Kolosovskiy said: > > i have strange deadlocked(?) process on my system. > > > > top: > > > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > > 38410 findfile 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0 0:00 0.00% grotty > > > > ps: > > > > host$ ps -waux | grep grotty > > findfile 38410 0,0 0,0 0 0 p6 REJ 19:57 0:00,25 [grotty] > > E in the STAT column means the process is trying to exit, but can't. > What does "ps lp 38410" print? The MWCHAN column should say where in > the kernel the process is stuck.
I often see this too. For example: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 5357 kkenn 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0:00 0.35% xpdf > ps -waux | grep xpdf kkenn 5357 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?? RE Sun08PM 0:00.20 [xpdf] > ps lp 5357 UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > Kris
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