**************************************** * 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
