[ale] Wow! Check out these load averages!

[James P. Kinney III]

gdb <PID> will attach it to the running (or in your case, hung) process

help will give info on classes of things you can do. help <topic> gives
more detail.

Since ftpd is acting up, bounce the networking setup. Also try running a
tcp sniffer to see if you are being attacked. tcpdump is a good idea. If
you see ports being half-opened by the same ip, block them at the
firewall.

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:07, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> Well, b/c I don't know how.  I'm a SysAdmin, not a programmer, Jim!  I'm
> checking google now, but if you have a quick one-liner, that would be
> great.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:02, John Wells wrote:
> > Jonathan,
> > 
> > Can you attach to one of the hung processes with gdb and see what it's
> > doing/waiting on?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > IBB said:
> > > I seriously hope not since it is a production web server sans X-windows
> > > or Galeon.  Now I have a long list of processes that won't die.  wu-ftpd
> > > (2.6.1 - oops) half-opens a pipe, and never closes it.  I can't kill any
> > > ftpd process even with -9.  I'm starting to get a little concerned.
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > 
> > 
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