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From: dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D. B. Robinson )
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: fork timing hole and runaway children
Message-ID: <110@foxvax5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:50:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:50:34 1985
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Reply-To: dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D. B. Robinson (Douglas))
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Organization: Foxboro Company, Inc., Foxboro, MA 02035
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Keywords: renice, 4.2BSD
Summary: Use 'renice' on 4.2 BSD systems to give yourself more time...

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You could try to use 'renice' if you are running a 4.2 BSD system.  This
is the way I fixed a similar situation.  Find the username of the user who
started the runnaway, and then type (as root):

      renice +20 -u username

This should cause all of the little beasties (including the user's
shell) to go to sleep on most active systems.  You then can do the
killing at a little less hectic pace.