Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: sitongia@hao.ucar.edu (Leonard Sitongia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Problem with processes Message-ID: <8811142359.AA23161@hao.UCAR.EDU> Date: 23 Nov 88 10:04:00 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: Sun-Spots@Rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 17 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 88 16:59:25 MST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 25, message 1 of 16 >From: Loki Jorgenson rm 421 > > I am running a 3/180 as fileserver to four clients with an ALM-2 > multiplexor for 16 terminals and pc's. On occasion, the ports which host > connections to the local VAX, modems or terminals become 'hung up' by > processes which ps describes as .... I've seen this problem arrise in two cases, one when a user does a XOFF (control-s) and then severs the connection to the computer, and the other case when a telnet is similarly severed. Unfortunately, I dont know how to kill a process in this beyond-zombie state. This brings up another question: what is the "lbolt" WCHAN? -Leonard E. Sitongia System Programmer (303) 497-1509 USPS Mail: High Altitude Observatory P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 Internet: sitongia@hao.ucar.edu SPAN: NSFGW::"hao.ucar.edu!sitongia" [NSFGW=9580]