suddenly >88 processes

Colin Brace cb at lim.nl
Wed Jun 28 11:22:59 UTC 2006


Hi all,

Just now, my FC5 system suddenly became unresponsive while i was
working and listening to some music with amarok. I ssh'ed from my
laptop to see what was going on. As you can see from the 'top' output
below, there were at least 88 amarokapp processes running which had
grabbed all available memory. There might have been more; these were
only as many as top could display in one terminal screen (with a tiny
font).

Anyone have any idea what went so horribly wrong? I don't mind it when
amarok crashes (as it does once in a while), but when it takes down my
whole system that is a real nuisance.

I am running v1.4.0


top - 13:01:21 up 9 days, 15:21, 10 users,  load average: 22.05, 23.13, 17.66
Tasks: 2003 total,  18 running, 1985 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.8% us, 99.1% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,
0.0% si,  0.0% st
Mem:   1035148k total,  1023076k used,    12072k free,      548k buffers
Swap:  1020116k total,  1020112k used,        4k free,    20028k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
17753 colin     18   0  370m 100m 2684 S  5.1  9.9 354:49.84 amule
16617 colin     20   0  244m  66m 2688 R  5.0  6.6  30:33.79 firefox-bin
 2688 root      18   0  167m  42m 1308 R  3.8  4.2 896:37.07 X
 8833 colin     21   0  319m  33m 2636 R  4.5  3.3  16:02.03 thunderbird-bin
 2815 colin     18   0  225m  26m 2480 R  1.7  2.6  26:24.08 nautilus
 5261 colin     20   0  140m  24m  364 R  2.9  2.5   0:15.80 amarokapp
 5260 colin     24   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5253 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:06.91 amarokapp
 5259 colin     23   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5252 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.08 amarokapp
 5249 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5250 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5251 colin     19   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.94 amarokapp
 5246 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5247 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5244 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5242 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5243 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5241 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5238 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5239 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5237 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5245 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5236 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5231 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.81 amarokapp
 5232 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5227 colin     22   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5230 colin     22   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5226 colin     22   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5225 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5219 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.26 amarokapp
 5224 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5218 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.55 amarokapp
 5217 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5209 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.26 amarokapp
 5213 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5207 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5208 colin     18   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.35 amarokapp
 5206 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5203 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5205 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5202 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5201 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5199 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5200 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5196 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.13 amarokapp
 5198 colin     25   0  139m  23m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5193 colin     25   0  139m  22m  240 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5194 colin     25   0  139m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.12 amarokapp
 5191 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5190 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5188 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5192 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5186 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5187 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5183 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5185 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5178 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.03 amarokapp
 5182 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.53 amarokapp
 5177 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.01 amarokapp
 5173 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5171 colin     22   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5172 colin     22   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5170 colin     22   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5174 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5169 colin     22   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5167 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5168 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5164 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.62 amarokapp
 5166 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5163 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.08 amarokapp
 5162 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5126 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:02.04 amarokapp
 5161 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5123 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5125 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.00 amarokapp
 5122 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5120 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5118 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5119 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5117 colin     19   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5121 colin     25   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5110 colin     19   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:01.42 amarokapp
 5113 colin     19   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5105 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.94 amarokapp
 5107 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5104 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.09 amarokapp
 5108 colin     20   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5100 colin     18   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.00 amarokapp
 5101 colin     19   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.15 amarokapp
 5103 colin     19   0  138m  22m  236 S  0.0  2.3   0:00.04 amarokapp


-- 
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam



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