Unkillable processes?
My firewall is running sarge, which I upgraded from woody about a month and
a half ago, but this problem appears to be an ongoing issue that carried
over.
I have noticed that my firewall seems to only be able to run for days at a
time. This bothered me, but I haven't had much chance to dig into it.
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
The last one is the man I could not ctrl-c out of.
Anyone seen this or know of a fix?
Thanks,
--BA
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