Subject: Re: the number of running processes just keeps growing
To: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/28/2001 19:28:42
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:56:16AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > From: "Jeremy C. Reed"
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > daily.conf manual page. To turn off the security report, set run_security
> > to "NO" in /etc/daily.conf. (I like receiving these daily reports; in
> 
> Setting run_security to "NO" solved the immediate problem.  Thanks, and I
> really mean it!  Now to find out why.  NONE of my other NetBSD machines have
> ever done this.  BTW, if it matters, this is on a sun4c NetBSD 1.4.2(sparc).
> 
> > From: Manuel Bouyer
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:08:14 +0200
> > 
> > ps axl would be more instructive. 
> 
> Thanks.  I'll turn run_security back on to try to debug this thing.  What
> should I look for?  (But if it's too hard to explain, I'll just post the
> "ps axl" output for the processes that accumulate.)

The "WCHAN" field is interesting, this tells on what resource the process
is blocked in kernel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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