Subject: killing process problems

From: Jama Musse Jama <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:11:21 +0200 (CEST)

I installed wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-17 on AIX Version 4, and both the
compilation and installation went ok.  My ftp-site is heavily visited.
I have great problem with killing the processes after a connection is
closed by an anonymous user.  All these processes are forked and, in a
time 10 minutes, the system gets `headache'.  Those processes cannot be
killed even manually, I mean with the command "kill -9 xxxxx".

The following is the output of `ps aux | grep ftp`
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ftp      15660  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:58:13  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      15416  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:58:55  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      14600  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:57:02  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      21810  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:58:43  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      25458  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    11:40:05  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      24160  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    11:38:51  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      18200  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:57:35  0:00 [ftpd]
jama     21410  0.0  0.0   52  164  pts/2 A    11:44:19  0:00 grep ftp 
ftp      20834  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    11:02:29  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      14422  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    11:00:59  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      10560  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    10:59:09  0:00 [ftpd]
ftp      10326  0.0  0.0   16   32      - A    11:37:38  0:00 [ftpd]
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Can anyone help me? thanks in advance.
Jama Musse.

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Jama Musse Jama, dott.		                e-mail:[email-masked]
Center of Network Services for	        http://www.dm.unipi.it/~jama
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy.
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