Don’t kill that runaway process without understanding what it was doing

Having problem with runaway processes on a shared box?

Save some cycles, by using strace -p <pid>.

Leave these till after you have done your stracing:

• Checking what releases have gone out recently
• Kernel upgrades/dmesg errors
• if you have filled a a filesystem, ok df -h is pretty quick as well
• kill -3 <javapid>

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