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Hi SJ, When I logged into measwx to check on things this evening, I found that there were several GEMPAK decoder invocations that had been running for a LONG time (near the beginning of August). I was able to kill most of them (after stopping the LDM), but three refuse to be killed (I tried 'kill' and 'kill -9' as both 'ldm' and 'root'). The processes that won't die are: 89566 dcncprof 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 25 42 888K 972K 2980K 89563 dcnldn 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 26 39 1900K 1208K 3468K 89562 dcnldn 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 26 39 1900K 1208K 3468K After killing several other GEMPAK decoders that had been running for a long time (one from August 6!!), the load average on measwx dropped from 11-12 to 5-6. Killing the other stuck processes (see above) may lessen the load on the machine even further. As far as stuck processes, the first line listed when running 'top' shows that there are several stuck processes: Processes: 163 total, 7 running, 7 stuck, 149 sleeping, 648 threads 23:28:38 At this point, I think that a reboot of the system is in order! Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MNK-989154 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed