**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
Hello SDS, good-morning. This seems like those perfect race conditions that the previous <2.2 kernel would provide on machines with LOW amounts of RAM. Try out what rajesh has said....but generally i rarely have been able to get the OS to a stable state from such a condition. Best would be to just give it a "init 6". Bye for now. Trevor On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:20, Rajesh Deo wrote: > **************************************** > * 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 > > -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
