[olug] process hung?

[andrew]

Is this the halting problem?

Ryan O'Rourke wrote:

>Is it safe to assume that a process is still effectively running if the
>"time" field of the "top" command is increasing?
>
>I've had an htdig indexing process running for about 24 hours and I
>would like to know if it's hung or not. Seems like a really long time be
>running.
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- Ryan
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