Re: Jobs dying in 'E'

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:52:36 +0100
In message <16831.48225.645540.672083_at_canoe.dclg.ca>, David Gilbert writes:
>>>>>> "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>
>Poul-Henning> In message <20041214194010.GD37432_at_dan.emsphone.com>,
>Poul-Henning> 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.
>
>Poul-Henning> This may be my fault, I'm testing a patch right now.
>
>Such a tease :).  May I try a copy of that patch?  It's either that or
>go back to stable as I need to get work done tomorrow :).

It's committed already.

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