On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:35:46AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a process named artsd (sound daemon for KDE), which takes 99% of > the process time. But even worse, it refuses to get killed. > > I don't care very much if artsd is buggy. What bothers me more, is that > "kill -9" fails, which I think is a bit of a fundamental problem. Any > idea of what can make my favourite serial killer fail? > > I'm running RH7.3, with kernel 2.4.21 on a Pentium 4. > > Here's a short session: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps -A | grep artsd > 4045 ? 1-09:59:05 artsd
ps aux |grep artsd What is its state > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# kill -9 4045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps -A | grep artsd > 4045 ? 1-09:59:14 artsd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# killall -9 artsd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps -A | grep artsd > 4045 ? 1-09:59:27 artsd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /proc/4045/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4045]# cd fd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fd]# ls -l | head > total 0 > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 0 -> /dev/null > l-wx------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 1 -> > /fs2/home/eli/.xsession-errors > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 10 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 100 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 101 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 102 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 103 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 104 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > lr-x------ 1 eli eli 64 Jun 28 23:57 105 -> > /fs2/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fd]# ls -l | wc > 807 8869 82719 > > The last thing was to show that the process holds ~ 800 file handles, > which are all this Beep file, except for 8 files & the three standards. > > Comments? Is this file OK? Is it really a wav file? (file) reading it tends to create a hung process? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
