[ic] "Stuck" IC process won't die

[Salvador Caballé EA3BKZ]

DB escribió:
>> Now and then I notice a "stuck" interchange process which even a kill -9 
>> wont get rid of. These odd processes seem to inflate my system's load 
>> average.
>>
>> Can someone suggest a way to kill these short of a reboot? Or better 
>> yet, a way to diagnose why they're occurring in the first place?
>>
>> This is a new machine with a fresh install of Centos 5.1 and IC 5.4.2
>>
>> from ps -ax:
>> 12608 ?        D      0:09 interchange
>> 13443 ?        D      0:21 interchange
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts are welcome.
>>
>> DB
> 
> I noticed that my cleanup cron job wasn't working. My 
> ....catalogs/store/tmp was up to 75 GB  (yes!!)
> 
> Could this oversight explain my issues, and if yes, why is a huge tmp bad?
> 

see:

http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/config/ChildLife.html


http://www.icdevgroup.org/docs/confs/ChildLife.html



Regards
Salvador