Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!David Parter From: david@wisc-rsch.arpa (David Parter) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: fork timing hole and runaway children Message-ID: <276@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 23:09:12 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.276 Posted: Mon Aug 26 23:09:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Aug-85 08:25:54 EDT References: <82@axiom.UUCP> <541@unisoft.UUCP> <671@cyb-eng.UUCP> <546@unisoft.UUCP> <356@rti-sel.UUCP> <16232@watmath.UUCP> Sender: david@uwvax.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: UWisc Systems Lab Lines: 18 summary: a program to gather all the processes running away, stop them then kill them... we have a program, which i beleive came from the net, called 'zap.' It sends any signal, or changes the 'niceness' of a process or collection of processes. It is usuful for this exact problem, which we seem to have a lot of from one particular programming class every semester. david -- david parter UWisc Systems Lab uucp: ...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo, topaz}!uwvax!david arpa now: david@wisc-rsch.arpa arpa soon: david@wisc-rsch.WISCONSIN.EDU or something like that