unkillable process
I just found out that my disk was full due to a 47 MB accounting file,
although I had stopped accounting completely. Anyway, I then stopped it
again and tried to /bin/rm /var/account/pacct*. This process removed the
47MB file but not the other files in the dir. To make matters worse it
didn't even stop. Instead it started to eat almost all of my cpu (>
95%). Then I tried to kill the process, but it didn't react to any
signal. When it reached 20 minutes cpu time I decided to reboot the
system just to get rid of this process.
Did anyone see a similar behaviour? Any ideas where this could come
from?
I am running kernel pre-2.0.31-2 and the latest Debian version of glibc
(rm uses glibc).
Michael
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