Hello, It seems that 'strace'ing the process is able to revive it immediately from whatever state it is in. here are the first few lines of this strace log:
% strace -p 4166
Process 4166 attached - interrupt to quit
close(6) = 0
close(7) = 0
close(8) = 0
close(9) = 0
gettimeofday({1116383882, 597010}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [24672]) = 0
read(3, "o\2\316\22m\'\36\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20"...,
2048) = 2048
gettimeofday({1116383882, 597402}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=5,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 2, 0) = 1
The rest is a lot of read/write calls that are characteristic of typical
X activity, so by then it has certainly come back.
Plugins I am using:
* extcmd plugin
* cpu load monitor plugin
* wavelan plugin
* datetime plugin
HTH!
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Joshua Kwan
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