Re: Unkillable processes

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:24:18 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Thomas Habets wrote:
> Today I got 66 unkillable 'autologout's. They were not zombies but could
> not be killed. ps fax showed no parent.

You mean something like this?

http://www.anime.net/~goemon/bug/

> I then rebooted the box since I had to get sendmail back (refused to work
> with load 66).
> top showed STAT=D on all 'autologout's.

Same here. sendmail doesnt like loads of 66.

> Seems like a bug to me.

Second data point?

-Dan

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