Comments on: Clean Up Your Mess http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess A tea-drinking web geek's coffee-flavored blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ammon Lauritzen http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess/comment-page-1#comment-6214 Ammon Lauritzen Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:40:48 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess#comment-6214 > Any process that tried to read from disk froze and couldn’t even be kill -9‘d. Yeah. That's standard fare for processes that are blocked on disk IO. In fact, whenever a process refuses to respond to kill -9, it is almost certainly blocking on an unresponsive device. When this happens to me, it's usually about the same time that I start wondering if we're experiencing a hardware failure. ;) > Any process that tried to read from disk froze and couldn’t even be kill -9‘d.

Yeah. That’s standard fare for processes that are blocked on disk IO. In fact, whenever a process refuses to respond to kill -9, it is almost certainly blocking on an unresponsive device.

When this happens to me, it’s usually about the same time that I start wondering if we’re experiencing a hardware failure. ;)

]]> By: Aidan http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess/comment-page-1#comment-6202 Aidan Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:46:37 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess#comment-6202 I think the guy that did it has been fired ;-) I think the guy that did it has been fired ;-)

]]> By: Snarky http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess/comment-page-1#comment-6180 Snarky Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:35:57 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess#comment-6180 Heck yea! Thankfully I've never been in a situation such as the above, mainly due to my age, but I've come close with some labs on campus. There was a time in one of my CS classes where we were in a UNIX lab. One guy figured out he could login (via ssh) to everyone's computers, and pop up messages. Very annoying. My solution was to teach him how to make messages really fast (bash scripts). It seemed counter-intuitive, but he ended up locking up a computer, and the sysadmins were able to find out who did it (ther person with a coupla thousand processes running). That kinda relates to the link David posted above, kinda your story. Thought I'd share as I can't really sleep. Heck yea! Thankfully I’ve never been in a situation such as the above, mainly due to my age, but I’ve come close with some labs on campus.

There was a time in one of my CS classes where we were in a UNIX lab. One guy figured out he could login (via ssh) to everyone’s computers, and pop up messages. Very annoying. My solution was to teach him how to make messages really fast (bash scripts). It seemed counter-intuitive, but he ended up locking up a computer, and the sysadmins were able to find out who did it (ther person with a coupla thousand processes running).

That kinda relates to the link David posted above, kinda your story. Thought I’d share as I can’t really sleep.

]]> By: David Bremner http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess/comment-page-1#comment-6178 David Bremner Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:20:12 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/clean-up-your-mess#comment-6178 I'm reminded of <a href="http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Make_a_Mess,_Clean_it_Up!.txt" rel="nofollow">this</a>. I’m reminded of this.

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