Runaway processes

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phoebe
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Runaway processes

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Our server is running texis/monitor processes that chew up most of the CPU time. texis with no argument
takes up a lot of time. The monitor processes are shown as
monitor -d <dbpath> -z
monitor -d testdb -z
and
monitor(Check Index)
which owns the first process above.

In the index directory are these files that looked like temporary files, they are numbered:

T03905a (_P.tbl .dat .btr _P.btr .tok etc)
and
T1578a ( ...)

T1578_P.tbl contains only 2 lines:
Texplist
|\alnum{2,99}
but T1578a.dat file is 1.8 G

Apparently after T1577a was deleted by hand, T1578a was generated .
What is going on and how do we fix it?

Phoebe.
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