On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:

Today I found my 6.1.2 Linux server non-responsive.

Had to kill -9 the dsmserv process. Restarted it.

Don't know if you did so, but always reserve 'kill -9' for a last
resort, as SIGKILL cannot be intercepted and handled by a process so
as to allow it to log diagnostic information, flush buffers, and shut
down relatively cleanly.  Doing a 'kill -11' has been the preferred
method, per the historic Problem Determination Guide.  SIGKILL has the
potential to result in damage.

   Richard Sims