Jobs dying in 'E'

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> writes:

Dan> 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?

Dan> man ps:

Dan>                E The process is trying to exit.

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

yeah.  I don't think ^S is going to have an effect on xchat :).  So
far, I have a python script and xchat that are doing this.

Dave.

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