I have experienced this EXACT behavior on several machines, all running
debian lenny 64bit. I stopped running the forks after it started taking
entire machines down.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, riemers <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've seen a process with 100% too, i've also seen a server which was full
> for like 2 hours on the same map.
> At that point i check it out, and it seemed the 4 survivor bots where
> playing against the infected bots, over and over again.
>
> Somehow still pretty funny..
>
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:13:44 +0100, Saint K. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I have had this issue twice up till now, and it's rather disturbing.
> >
> > What happened is that a L4D2 fork gets in a crashing mode of some kind
> > where it continuously puts 100% CPU load on a single core. I've seen
> these
> > sort of crashes perhaps around 10 times so far. 8 times I've spotted it
> > soon enough to kill -9 <pid> the process, and 2 times I've been too late
> > and it been in such a state for several hours before it will entirely
> kill
> > off the machine. The machine will only reply to icmp and nothing else
> (ssh,
> > http, ftp, gameservers etc).
> >
> > This worries me a bit, because I do not have any reason to assume
> > something is broken on OS or hardware level.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Saint K.
> >
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