d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang) (05/02/90)
I was trying to run dbx and got impatient after waiting for about 5 min. for the initialization to finish. I couldn't interrupt (ctrl-c) or suspend the job (ctrl-z). I then tried "kill" and "kill -9", but the jobs remained. I killed the shell process, but again nothing happened to the dbx jobs. I then foolishly tried dbx 3 more times with the same result, so now I have 8 dbx-associated jobs sitting around. 1. How can I get rid of these jobs? 2. Is there a way to prevent this? 3. Do the swapped out jobs affect the machine load, and if so, how much? Below is the output of "ps ux": USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND d-yang 21057 15.8 1.4 192 456 r1 R 23:57 0:00 ps ux d-yang 11271 0.0 0.0 24 0 qc TW Apr 30 0:00 b-splineinter d-yang 20368 0.0 0.3 48 88 r1 I 23:47 0:00 sh /usr/local/bin/Pnews d-yang 20383 0.0 1.5 168 488 r1 S 23:47 0:01 /usr/ucb/vi /u/cs/d-yang d-yang 19731 0.0 0.0 24 0 t1 TW 23:23 0:00 b-spline d-yang 20367 0.0 0.3 32 88 r1 I 23:47 0:00 /bin/sh -c Pnews -h /u/c d-yang 20058 0.0 0.0 56 8 r1 I 23:33 0:01 -ksh (ksh) d-yang 19730 0.0 0.1 208 16 t1 I 23:23 0:00 dbx b-spline d-yang 12577 0.0 0.0 208 0 qc IW Apr 30 0:00 dbx binter d-yang 12578 0.0 0.0 24 0 qc TW Apr 30 0:00 binter d-yang 11268 0.0 0.0 208 0 qc IW Apr 30 0:00 dbx b-splineinter d-yang 5831 0.0 0.0 208 0 sa IW Apr 30 0:00 dbx b-splineinter d-yang 20341 0.0 1.1 144 336 r1 I 23:46 0:00 rn d-yang 5832 0.0 0.0 24 0 sa TW Apr 30 0:00 b-splineinter Any help/advice would be appreciated, (e-mail would be preferred, especially if this is a worn-out topic-- I didn't see it in the most recent "Commonly Asked Questions posting" I have-- sorry if I'm not reading carefully enough) David Yang d-yang@cs.columbia.edu