Re: Can't kill a process

[Frank Carreiro <frank.carreiro@investools.com>]

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The system originally was running ext3 until we flattened it and 
reinstalled RedHat with the reiser file system.  I have other systems 
not running reiser which perform just fine.  The problem seems to be 
pointed at the filesystem

I had presumed there was something I needed to tweak there.


Dave Poirier wrote:

>May I ask how is that related to ReiserFS?  Seems like a rather generic Linux problem to me, maybe you could try the Red Hat forums, mailing lists or IRC channels.
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>Dave Poirier
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Frank Carreiro <frank.carreiro@investools.com>
>Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 9:52 am
>Subject: Can't kill a process
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>>I have a rather intense process that has been running since last 
>>night.  
>>I wanted to kill it since it's eating up my cpu however kill and 
>>kill -9 
>>don't seem to be doing the trick.
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>>I'm running the reiser 3.6.25 file system on a RedHat Advanced 
>>Server 
>>(2.1) with 2.4.9-3.38smp kernel.
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>>It's simply counting the time away as it copies files to disk.  
>>I've 
>>reniced it to 15.  It's also on a raid 5 array and I've modified 
>>my 
>>min/max speed to 10/50.  Performance has improved however the 
>>process is 
>>still running. 
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>>Thoughts?
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>>thx
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