[olug] process hung?

Nick Walter waltern at iivip.com
Tue Apr 8 19:17:43 UTC 2003


offhand, I'd suggest using strace to see what it's doing.

strace -p <relevant PID> 

If the strace produces a continous scrolling output, the process is
doing something and not blocking.

Nick Walter

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 12:26, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> Is it safe to assume that a process is still effectively running if the
> "time" field of the "top" command is increasing?
> 
> I've had an htdig indexing process running for about 24 hours and I
> would like to know if it's hung or not. Seems like a really long time be
> running.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Ryan
> 
> 
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