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Processes running out of control.
- From: quintaq@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:33:44 +0000
- Message-id: <20010109183049.1AD87DF912@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
Can any kind person explain to me what causes a process to run out of control, and whether a problem I have begun to experience is just a fact of linux life or is specific to my system ?
I am running SuSE 7 on a PIII 800 / 815e mobo / XFree v4 / Afterstep WM.
I first saw the problem when running faxgetty. For no particular reason the process suddenly (unpredictably) rises to 99% cpu usage. I thought initially that this might be unique to faxgetty, but I have seen it now with xman and asmodem (a simple modem monitor for Afterstep). Both of these have only run out of control once, and are otherwise well-behaved.
I never see the problem begin, but then I glance at my system monitor and there it is.
Thanks in anticipation,
Geoff
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Can any kind person explain to me what causes a process to run out of control, and whether a problem I have begun to experience is just a fact of linux life or is specific to my system ?
I am running SuSE 7 on a PIII 800 / 815e mobo / XFree v4 / Afterstep WM.
I first saw the problem when running faxgetty. For no particular reason the process suddenly (unpredictably) rises to 99% cpu usage. I thought initially that this might be unique to faxgetty, but I have seen it now with xman and asmodem (a simple modem monitor for Afterstep). Both of these have only run out of control once, and are otherwise well-behaved.
I never see the problem begin, but then I glance at my system monitor and there it is.
Thanks in anticipation,
Geoff
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