Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:36:09 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: Jobs dying in 'E' Message-ID: <29815.1103056569@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:40:10 CST." <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com>
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In message <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes: >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. This may be my fault, I'm testing a patch right now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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