Re: Runaway process: "sh"
 

I haven't seen it since that one time. I think my rps has scared it away ;-)

Craig...

Re: Runaway process: "sh"
 

The kill -9 xxxx command worked for me to kill it. I followed the advice and removed privoxy (which I wasn't using anyway), and I haven't seen "sh" run away since then. ...I think it worked.

Ryan ryanwright.org

Re: Runaway process: "sh"
 

I have never used privoxy. I do get this occaisionally and it seems to be caused (from my observations on my system) Closing an xterm without exiting properly. Since I started typing exit instead of hitting the X in the window, I stopped having this issue. I could not prove this though :(

Re: Runaway process: "sh"
 

exit is good.. hitting 'x' may sometimes be bad.. but I've only seen the problem if I hit 'x' when I'm running another program in xterm, e.g. 'vi'. Kill the xterm with 'x' when in 'vi' results in 100% CPU and a runaway shell.