Strange process

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 15), Ivan Kolosovskiy said:
> > i have strange deadlocked(?) process on my system.
> > 
> > top:
> > 
> > PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> > 38410 findfile    1  96    0     0K     0K START  0   0:00  0.00% grotty
> > 
> > ps:
> > 
> > host$ ps -waux | grep grotty
> > findfile 38410  0,0  0,0     0     0  p6  REJ  19:57     0:00,25 [grotty]
> 
> E in the STAT column means the process is trying to exit, but can't.
> What does "ps lp 38410" print?  The MWCHAN column should say where in
> the kernel the process is stuck.

I often see this too.  For example:

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 5357 kkenn         1  96    0     0K     0K START    0:00  0.35% xpdf

> ps -waux  | grep xpdf
kkenn    5357  0.3  0.0     0     0  ??  RE   Sun08PM   0:00.20 [xpdf]

> ps lp 5357
  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ   RSS MWCHAN STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
>

Kris
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