RE: unkillable htop

[Marcin Gondek <drixter%e-utp.net@localhost>]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the info, going to update source and compile :-)


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AS56662

-----Original Message-----
From: current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> On Behalf Of Thomas Klausner
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 2:50 PM
To: Marcin Gondek <drixter%e-utp.net@localhost>
Cc: current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: unkillable htop

Hi Marcin!

That seems to be caused by a problem in posix_spawn and is now handled in https://gnats.netbsd.org/59175

Cheers,
 Thomas


On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 01:13:24PM +0000, Marcin Gondek wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I've noticed the same, did you find the solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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> Marcin Gondek / Drixter
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> AS56662
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> 
> On Behalf Of Thomas Klausner
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2025 7:58 PM
> To: current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: unkillable htop
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wanted to try out sysutils/htop on 10.99.12/x86_64, looking at how much a process is growing by filtering the process list and only showing that process.  That worked fine. When I was done, I wanted to quit htop, but F10 didn't make it exit.
> 
> - 'kill'ing the process didn't help. It was still there.
> 
> - 'kill -9'ing the process didn't help. It was still there.
> 
> - Not even when I tried it as root.
> 
> - renice claims it can change the process' priority, but it's was
>   still eating 99% CPU during a bulk build, so I'm not sure how much
>   that helped.
> 
> 11928: old priority 0, new priority 20 second try:
> 11928: old priority 20, new priority 20 so it seemed to have an 
> effect.
> 
> top says:
> 11928 wiz       25    0    15M 2484K CPU/15    432:48 99.02% 99.02% htop
> 
> ps -auxwww said:
> wiz           11928 99.0  0.0    15720   2484 pts/7- O    12:38nachm. 429:43.76 htop
> 
> I tried attaching to it with gdb, now ps -auxwww says:
> wiz           11928 99.0  0.0    15720   2484 pts/7- OX   12:38nachm. 433:03.93 htop
> 
> but gdb doesn't make it process, it stopped at ...
> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
> Reading symbols from htop...
> Attaching to program: /usr/pkg/bin/htop, process 11928
> 
> 
> At least I can kill that gdb:
> [ 374957.7575874] sorry, pid 11928 was killed: orphaned traced process
> zsh: killed     gdb htop 11928
> 
> What's going wrong here?
> 
> How can I make the process quit?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Thomas