I rebooted my Fedora 4 box today after being up for 160 days (to install a new hard drive). Now, I noticed rotate.pl is going nuts. Anyone know why or how to drive it down gracefully--short of a kill -9?
top - 01:25:55 up 8:12, 2 users, load average: 8.00, 8.00, 7.77
Tasks: 114 total, 9 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.3% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 514092k total, 507772k used, 6320k free, 5108k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 660k used, 1051588k free, 283120k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
505 root 25 0 14612 12m 1696 R 13.3 2.5 38:00.14 rotate.pl
10880 root 25 0 14616 12m 1696 R 13.3 2.5 33:28.96 rotate.pl
22959 root 25 0 14612 12m 1696 R 13.3 2.5 21:09.91 rotate.pl
26097 root 25 0 14616 12m 1696 R 13.3 2.5 11:47.78 rotate.pl
26666 root 25 0 14612 12m 1696 R 13.3 2.5 3:15.04 rotate.pl
18950 root 25 0 14616 12m 1696 R 12.9 2.5 31:37.64 rotate.pl
29227 root 25 0 14624 12m 1696 R 10.0 2.5 41:13.38 rotate.pl
16076 root 25 0 14612 12m 1696 R 9.6 2.5 32:09.92 rotate.pl
26236 root 16 0 7428 2404 1916 S 0.3 0.5 0:03.25 sshd
26279 root 16 0 2016 1004 780 R 0.3 0.2 0:19.94 top
1 root 16 0 1744 572 492 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.27 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 khelper
5 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid