Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:13:15 +0100 (WET DST) | | From | Klaus Lichtenwalder <> | | Subject | Re: huge load average follow up |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> OK this really looks like a kernel bug to me. kernel 2.0.30. > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 26070 ? D 0:00 in.ntalkd > 1:10 vipe /home/staff/andi# strace -p 26070 > attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted > I can't kill this and another 32 in.ntalkd's. > [...] Well, just to chime in, on my machine (2.0.30, p166, 64M, 2*2GB SCSI) I have two processes hanging in D-state. There's nothing special about them, they are tiff-to-ps converters for received faxes. They apparently ran fine but somehow don't terminate?
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