Re: User CPU going 100% +! ;-)

In article <jlumbleyDLA4Cw.4sB@netcom.com> jlumbley@netcom.com "Joe Lumbley" writes: > Ceri Hopkins (C.A.Hopkins@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote: > > > : Process starts.. possibly reads some data.. then goes to top of stack > : using >100% CPU (top) > > <snip> > > Ceri, > > Looks like your have a runaway process. This happen when a fron-end process > like dbaccess or 4GL dies without killing it's children processes. This can also happen if you are running via a network & turn the screen off - there has been some postings about this recently. The first process loses it's terminal & gets stuck in a loop trying to write to it. Jonathan Leffler sent the bug number which is fixed in 4.14/6.02. -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================