[ale] Wow! Check out these load averages!

[James P. Kinney III]

That is not a good thing. Sometimes renice'ing a DN'ed process will
"wake" it up enough to die from a kill -9.  Caveat: sometimes it will
hang init (seriously not good). Be nearby with a power button.


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:59, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> OK.  What does "DN" mean?  The man page says "uninterruptable sleep (due
> to I/O) and "low-priority").  How do I kill these processes?
> 
> # ps -aux | grep ftp
> root      7786  0.0  0.3  2188  780 ?        DN   Mar07   0:00 ftpd:
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:46, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > I seriously hope not since it is a production web server sans X-windows
> > or Galeon.  Now I have a long list of processes that won't die.  wu-ftpd
> > (2.6.1 - oops) half-opens a pipe, and never closes it.  I can't kill any
> > ftpd process even with -9.  I'm starting to get a little concerned.
> > 
> > Jonathan
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:34, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > Let me guess:
> > > 
> > > Galeon trying to load a page full of javascript with open unauthorized
> > > windows turned off hitting a pr0n site.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:30, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > > > 8:28pm  up 58 days,  3:14,  2 users,  load average: 24.00, 23.70, 22.95
> > > > 129 processes: 128 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > > CPU0 states:  0.3% user,  2.1% system,  0.0% nice, 97.0% idle
> > > > CPU1 states:  0.1% user,  1.3% system,  0.0% nice, 98.0% idle
> > > > Mem:   255116K av,  246340K used,    8776K free,       0K shrd,    3680K
> > > > buff
> > > > Swap:  819304K av,   22044K used,  797260K free                  115712K
> > > > cached
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I've never  seen load numbers that high b/f...not on that box.
> > > > 
> > > > jbg
> > > > 
> > > > 
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