INNd just sitting there doign select(s)?

[The Hermit Hacker]

On 13 Feb 2001, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> writes:
>
> > With all the crashes, have I finally corrupted something?
> >
> > truss -p shows:
> >
> > news.hub.org> truss -p 3851
> > (null)()                                         = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> > select(0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbff20c)               = 0 (0x0)
> >
> > and a gdb of the 'gcore' dump of the process is showing:
> >
>
> Any dead pieces of inn floating around (nnrpd for example) - I'm not
> sure how the mutexes are managed for Berkeley DB on FreeBSD.

I just kill'd off everything, using a simple 'kill <pid>', and the
ovdb_monitor was left istting around with the ovdb_checkpoint(?) process
... kill'd that off and restarted, and all appears well ...