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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help on processes not associated with a TTY Post 8479 by bluefactory on Friday 12th of October 2001 03:36:43 AM
Old 10-12-2001
Help on processes not associated with a TTY
Hi all ^_^
Okay, here's the problem:

There's an IBM RS6000 server running AIX 4.3 with Informix database in my workplace. During peak hours, it has about 350 users doing mostly database operations. It has been set up that those users can only log-in the system at one terminal at a time. Due to many reasons (improper disconnection from the system, disrupted connection, etc), some users' processes are hung in the system, eating up system resources, even though they got disconnected. Those processes are the ones without a TTY when examining the output of the command "ps aux"

Thus, our system operators receive a lot of user requests to kill their processes. A shell script is used to kill all processes without a tty(terminal name) belonging to a specified user. Apparantly,
our operators are sick of getting calls to kill those dead processes.

I want to know if there's a way to prevent this problem from happening at all (or decrease the frequency of this problem)
 

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NAME

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