Messages in this thread | | | Subject | PS/Top broken - /proc entry bad | From | Matt Simonsen <> | Date | 11 Dec 2002 13:49:51 -0800 |
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I had a box where ps and top quit working after hundreds of days uptime. After doing an strace ps I found that one directory in /proc was hanging it up, a directory named a 5 digit number which I believe was associtated with a process of the same name.
I tried doing a kill -9 on the process, it returned fine but the process was still there. Reboot hung my session, too, I had to use reboot -f to get the machine healthy again.
Is there any way to "fix" /proc other than what I did? I suppose maybe going into a lower init level and then back to 3 may have worked. It's a remote machine, though, so reboot was at the time seemed like a better solution.
Any comments/suggestions on what to do in this situation?
Thanks Matt
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