Unable to kill runaway app. -

[Bob Goodwin]

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem.
>>
>> I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the 
>> nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable 
>> amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated 
>> the cup at 99.5%. Something did eventually time out but that did not 
>> calm the cup activity.: .
>>
>>    3487 bobg      20   0  2928 1068  932 R 99.5  0.0 445:55.55 
>> gam_server
>>
>> Kill 3487 does not stop it. In fact nothing seems to. I told it to 
>> poweroff and it got as far as "halting system" and stayed there until 
>> I pressed the power button for five seconds or so.
>>
>> This happened once last night and it sat there saying it was busy, 
>> the power button was required to kill it then too.
>>
>> I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to 
>> know what other commands I might try to restore things without 
>> shutting down and rebooting.
>>
>> This is an F-10 system pretty much up to date, certainly all security 
>> updates and perhaps all the rest, I've lost track at the moment. I 
>> suspect the problem is related to some horse photo files from my 
>> daughters Mac. But I need a way to stop things when this happens ...
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Try "soft" option on the nfs mount in case the root cause is a problem 
> with the nfs access to the image file.
>
    Ok, I will try that. If I understand the soft option goes in the
    client /etc/fstab? It can also be assigned a time value?

    Thanks.

    Bob