> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:48:22PM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>
> > I have a process (an instance of a find command) that seems to be
> > unkillable (ie kill -9 <pid> as root doesn't work).
> >
> > Top shows it's status as R.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to kill the thing? It's taking up all unused cpu
> > cycles (currently at 97.4%).
>
> I assume that's kapm-idled. That's normal, it's job is exactly burning
> unused cycles.
No. He said it's an instance of find.
Stuck in R, though - some sort of loop? Christopher, can you attach gdb to
it and see what's happening?
James.
-- "Our attitude with TCP/IP is, `Hey, we'll do it, but don't make a big system, because we can't fix it if it breaks -- nobody can.'""TCP/IP is OK if you've got a little informal club, and it doesn't make any difference if it takes a while to fix it." -- Ken Olson, in Digital News, 1988
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