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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:40:10 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        Freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Jobs dying in 'E'
Message-ID:  <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <16831.16550.226558.417721@canoe.dclg.ca>
References:  <16831.16550.226558.417721@canoe.dclg.ca>

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In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said:
> I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the 'E'
> state.  Any idea what is causing this?

man ps:

               E       The process is trying to exit.

Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because
someone has hit ^S.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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