Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 07:54:45 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: hung processes in STABLE Message-ID: <20030805145445.A1CAC5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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For the past three weeks (this is really a guess as I just noticed it last week) I have been seeing many processes started in terminal windows that are no longer in existence. They were started using something like: gnome-terminal -x weather.pl -wr where weather.pl is a simple Perl script that prints a text file and periodically updates it by clearing the screen and re-writing the file to get the latest data. When the terminal session is terminated (by logging out of the session), the Perl process is left running in an IWs+ state and it can't be killed. This did not happen in the past. It slowly eats up resources, especially pseudo-terminals. Any idea what might be causing this? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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