Re: Jobs dying in 'E'

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:36:09 +0100
In message <20041214194010.GD37432_at_dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes:
>In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said:
>> I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the 'E'
>> state.  Any idea what is causing this?
>
>man ps:
>
>               E       The process is trying to exit.
>
>Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because
>someone has hit ^S.

This may be my fault, I'm testing a patch right now.

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