Re: soffice, 2.2.18, cpu 97% idle, loadavg 6.05

[Anuradha Ratnaweera]

What is the compiler?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 [e-mail] wrote:

> linux 2.2.18 with VM-global patch
> 128MB RAM
> AMD K6-3/366
> Star Office 5.2
> 
> I exiting StarOffice, and a little later noticed my loadavg display
> widget was showing a high load average. top reports it at 6.
> 
> Poking about, I found all the soffice.bin processes still hanging
> around.
> 
> Looking with top, all the soffice.bin processes are in the 'D N' state.
> In top's 'no idle' mode they are listed.
> 
> The CPU is hanging around 97% idle, the loadavg has been sitting
> at 6+ for almost 15 minutes.  It seems likely this state will
> continue forever.
> 
> I tried a 'kill' on all the soffice.bin process and there was
> no change.  a 'kill -9' also had no effect.
> 
> What is going on?
> 
> Shouldn't I be able to tear down the processes?
> 
> Here is status on the soffice.bin process with the lowest PID:
> 
> # cat /proc/5294/status
> Name:   soffice.bin
> State:  D (disk sleep)
> Pid:    5294
> PPid:   775
> Uid:    101     101     101     101
> Gid:    101     101     101     101
> Groups: 101 0 10 228 229 500 
> VmSize:   103600 kB
> VmLck:         0 kB
> VmRSS:     49588 kB
> VmData:    13008 kB
> VmStk:      1104 kB
> VmExe:        88 kB
> VmLib:     73604 kB
> SigPnd: 0000000000004100
> SigBlk: 0000000080000000
> SigIgn: 8000000000001000
> SigCgt: 00000003bfc064ff
> CapInh: 0000000000000000
> CapPrm: 0000000000000000
> CapEff: 0000000000000000
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Brian Litzinger <[e-mail]>
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