Re: unkillable process

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Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 09:47:50 EST

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have unkillable process. It appeared some time ago, but I noticed it
> only today. Even worse, it started to eat 100% CPU after I
> tried to kill it.

same here on 2.2.13. It seems that mine happened as a result of a SCSI
error on a flaky HDD -- there are a nice flood of scsidisk errors in the
log around the same time that this process went ballistic. Odd that it'd
get stuck in R and not D, though. It quite happily survives kill -9.

ps -aux:

root 4991 52.4 0.7 3372 1924 ? R 02:58 180:17 sendmail: ./e2V8wro04986: from queue

ps -alx:

140 0 4991 1 19 0 3372 1924 - R ? 181:14 sendmail: ./e2V8wro04986: from queue

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