On Wednesday 16 July 2003 21:32, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > Today I noticed a number of processes, normal housekeeping stuff, like > anacron, run-parts, etc that are in a sleeping state, but can't be killed. > I'm starting to wonder if the reason I can only get about 30 days or less > out of the firewall is that the process table fills up and things slow to a > crawl. > > Not only can the processes be killed (with a kill -9 as root), but if I > start a process, it seems at the moment that I cannot kill any hung process > (for instance, requesting a man page did not ever display said page, so I > tried to control-c out of it, and was unsuccessful. > > A few of the processes showing up now are > > root 4659 0.0 0.7 1348 696 ? S Jul15 0:00 anacron -s > root 7260 0.0 0.5 1308 496 ? SN Jul15 0:00 run-parts > --repor > t /etc/cron.daily > root 5164 0.0 1.0 2040 984 ? SN Jul15 0:00 /bin/sh > /etc/cron > .daily/find > root 7177 0.0 1.0 2076 1028 ? SN Jul15 0:00 /bin/sh > /usr/bin/ > updatedb > root 19375 0.0 1.0 2076 972 ? SN Jul15 0:00 /bin/sh > /usr/bin/updatedb > root 13227 0.0 0.5 7160 488 ? SN Jul15 0:00 sort -f > root 13092 0.0 0.2 1188 284 ? SN Jul15 0:00 > /usr/lib/locate/frcode > storm 26028 0.0 0.6 1964 576 pts/1 D 14:21 0:00 man ps
Assuming that everything else works, I'd think it's dud memory. Try running memtest86 for some time. That's the only thing that made my always-on boxes misbehave up to now. An alternative idea would be that you're running an extremely funky kernel (early 2.4 series perhaps?) that could need upgrading. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
