Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:56:41 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's killing my processes? Message-ID: <20000514145641.O28383@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000515040348.4202A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:05:27AM %2B1200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000515040348.4202A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>
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* Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> [000514 09:38] wrote: > > Something seems to be knocking off various processes on my server with the > equivalent of a 'kill -9'. This has included processes run from the shell > as root (make, pico) and some cron jobs. I'm guessing there's more, but > those are the ones I have a little information on. > > The only thing I can think of that might do something like this is > resource limits, but that seems unlikely to hit pico in mid use on a small > file, and there's no apparent resource crunch going on. I think I can > rule this out. Is there any other reason the kernel itself might issue > KILL signals? > > How can I get information on what's going on? Is there some way I can put > in a trace on any KILL signals issued on the system so I can identify the > culprit process (or kernel)? I can get a list of killed processes from > the system accounting (lastcomm), but I need the signal type and source. > > Any ideas? Giving us the version of FreeBSD you're running usually helps, with that noted there was a pretty serious bug a while back where some system daemon would incorrectly send signals to processes it shouldn't have. I would recommend an upgrade to -stable. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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