Jobs dying in 'E'

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Dec 14 11:40:33 PST 2004


In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said:
> I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the 'E'
> state.  Any idea what is causing this?

man ps:

               E       The process is trying to exit.

Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because
someone has hit ^S.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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