On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while. > Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (or top), please? > Andrei
not zombie... 19355 rothaar 9 0 90588 88M 476 D 0.0 17.6 0:01 plot.out from top. I actually had dpkg do the same thing the other day when I tried to install a third part .deb. Eventually got it to work fine, but it got hung up at dpkg --config. I thought it was just a fuke of what I was doing at the time or something, but maybe not... I run dozens of apps very similar to this every day for my work, the only thing special about this one was that I was trying to run it with a certain array as large as possible. It kept segfaulting because I didn't have neough memory I guess, until this one, which just sortof sits there, munching up memory but no CPU (luckily! :) ) The array was 1,000,000 x 2 x 2 x 1 and it was trying to make 100 copies, so I don't blame the machine for complaining a bit, but I'd really like to kill the stupid thing... Thanks, -Dan
