[ILUG] Corrupted Process(?)

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Do the ps/top freeze as root as well ?

On 09 May 2001 10:58:56 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>       need a little help with this if anyone knows.  We have a machine
> running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.2, dual cpu PIII.  It's used for both
> computation and general surfing/email etc.  
> 
>       We have two long running computations running on it, which have a
> few weeks left and cannot be stopped, so a reboot is out.  It would appera
> that Netscape crahseed on one of the users and left a corrupted or
> unreadable /proc entry.  As a result, ps and top both freeze.  Whenever
> the directory in /proc is read, the process reading it seems to freeze.  
> 
>       As a result we now have a load avg of 40:
> 
> gavin at buggeredmachine:/home/gavin$ uptime
> 10:54am  up 50 days,  9:07, 17 users,  load average: 41.09, 41.22, 41.24
> 
>       All else, seems to be fine, but we'd like to correct this without
> a reboot.  Do you think the cpu is wasting much time on the corrupted
> processes.  Do you think the computation (nice 19) is still using most of
> the cpu or not (it normally would use 80%)?  Can anyone see what has
> caused this, and in particular, does anyone have a solution.  Does it seem
> likely that netscape could do this?
> 
>       Thanks in advance, mail me back if you want any more info.  Please
> cc my address as I am only on the summary email thingy.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
> 
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