From: kdea@alpine-la.com
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 12:50:39 EST
Hi Managers,
One of our engineers asked me to kill a process that was running, and
hogging up 100% of the CPU. It was for some custom program that they wrote
to write to a database of files. The process would not die, even with
repeated attempts with 'kill -9'. Upon investigation, we've discovered
that it may be writing to a core file. The core dump is getting bigger and
bigger, but I don't know how long this will go on. We do have 32 GB of
memory on the machine, and this process may be using a good deal of it. Is
there a way I can stop all of this, the core dump and the parent process?
The machine is an ES40 running Tru64 5.1a. Restarting is not an option.
-- Kevin Dea UNIX System Administrator Alpine Electronics Research of America
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