Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:41 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: glewis@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" Message-ID: <20090914154241.GA60268@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090914153728.GA60162@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090914153728.GA60162@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command > hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU, > yeat CPU time is zero: > > PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 60071 1001 2 48 0 98008K 51424K CPU1 1 0:00 100.00% gnuplot > > kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root, > has no effect, the process is still there. > > I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot. > > This seems to be a regression. running gnuplot in batch (non-interactive) mode seems fine, so the problem seems to be with the screen terminal. I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that I cannot kill the process.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5924
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