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Subject: Killing a process ...

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Name: Cronik
Date: January 10, 2002 at 04:42:17 Pacific
Subject: Killing a process ...

Comment:

Hello everyone,
I have a suspended process here, which I can't seem to stop or resume... I have all the privileges enabled.
anybody any ideas?

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Response Number 1

Name: Magnus G
Date: January 11, 2002 at 13:58:23 Pacific
Subject: Killing a process ...

Reply: (edit)

sh sys at the prompt look at the pid number
stop/proc/id=xxxx
it can be more difficult maybe ?
/Magnus G.

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Response Number 2

Name: Cronik
Date: January 13, 2002 at 22:45:01 Pacific
Subject: Killing a process ...

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Hi Magnus G,
I've tries it with the Stop commands, REsume commands and nosuspend commands, but no luck.. it seems as if the process (PID) is some sort of hanging address block in memory.
This morning I killed it by having to reboot the machiene... however, there must be a way to "flush" that part of memory address ?

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Response Number 3

Name: Hans B
Date: January 15, 2002 at 13:46:53 Pacific
Subject: Killing a process ...

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Hello,
by suspended process, do you mean a process in SUSP state or an MWAIT state? Quite a difference.
A process in an MWAIT state (as RWAST e.g.) might NOT be "killable".
You must find out why the process going into the MWAIT state and then correct that chain of events.
There are articles at the COMPAQ OpenVMS Support Web site (can't remember URL) that helps you in analyzing the reason of an MWAIT.
Good luck

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