If you know that there is a process that has a habit of running away, put
some kind of script out there that will test for what this job may be doing.
You will not be able to do this is you don't know what the job is.

Glance or SOS, from Lund, will show you who the runaway is, but you still
have to abort it.  If the situation is so bad, system reset is required.
The big thing is to find the runaway before it gets out of hand!!

Ron Horner
HP3000 Systems Administrator
JCPenney Logistics
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Berner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:56 PM
Subject: Runaway process / system hang


> Hello all,
>
> A few days ago we had a runaway process on our 3000 (a 979-100).
> We ended up rebooting the system to get rid of the offending process.
>
> While the process was running, we couldn't login to the system except with
> "pri=bs".  Once logged in a "showjob" just sat there as did an "abortjob"
> that I tried.  I tried to start glance but it just sat there too.
>
> Any advise on the best way to handle the situation?  Its there any way to
> find out what is running and kill the offending process?  (And why would
> "showjob" hang?  Is it just waiting for CPU cycles or could it be unable
> to access some internal system tables or something?)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Edward Berner
> Yosemite Community College District
>
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