Hi Dave, Thanx for your time. Ya, its a C++ aplication. I am sure it is not forking any child. It is not waiting, infact it is consuming lots of CPU time. Regards, Umesh "Webster, Dave/RMD" wrote: > > Hi Umesh, > > I've had similar problems when a process is waiting for children > it swaned/forked off to finish, and those children hang. Can you > check for children of the main, 'wedged' process ('pstree' or similar)? > Although I would have assumed it's state wouldn't be running if > it was waiting for a child to die. Also, are you sure it's the main > processes that's 'wedged', and not a forked child of it? > > Cannot you kill the process with kill, kill -1, kill -14 or kill -9? > I've not heard of too many non-zombie processess impervious to > the kill -9 from root? Maybe you don't have correct permissions? > > If you've tried gdb-ing to it, it's probably a C/C++ app, not Java, > eh? Maybe you're conditionally forking off a child process, or > making a db connection isn't closing and your app. is patiently > waiting. > > Hmmm, just some random guesses. Sorry. > > p.s. I've not heard the phrase 'wedged' applied to knackered > programs before. Cool, a new term to fob annoying clients off > with ("Sorry Gale, the program is wedged until Thursday."). > > -d.w. > :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Umesh Sisodia [mailto:usisodia@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tue 20/05/2003 12:36 > To: redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > Subject: My process wedges the machine. > > > > Hi > > We have recently ported our tools to Red hat linux. > In one of our application we are facing the problem that it wedges > the machine. Log file shows that process has completed its job, but > then machine almost hangs. > > -Process cannot be killed. > -process is in run state (not waiting on I/O) > -process run time keeps incrementing endlessly. > -process memory size is low (41MB) > -gdb cannot attach to the process. > > This does not happen in every run, but happens randomly once in a > while. The machine is IBM with 1xCPU (Xeon 2.4MHz) 4GB RAM running > the RH7.3 BigMem kernel. > Regards, > Umesh > > > -- > ****************************************************** > Umesh Sisodia (Sr. Member of technical staff) > Cadence Design Systems, NEPZ, Noida, India > Ph: (off) 91-120-2562842, ext. 4298 > (mobile) 98112 04168, (Res) 91-120-2578734 > email : usisodia@xxxxxxxxxxx > ****************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: winmail.dat > winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef > Encoding: base64 -- ****************************************************** Umesh Sisodia (Sr. Member of technical staff) Cadence Design Systems, NEPZ, Noida, India Ph: (off) 91-120-2562842, ext. 4298 (mobile) 98112 04168, (Res) 91-120-2578734 email : usisodia@xxxxxxxxxxx ****************************************************** _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list