COM (compute state) indicates that the process needs to use CPU cycles to proceed. A process that continuously exhibits this state is not performing any I/O. Such a process may have encountered an infinite loop in the application program. However, it may also have encountered a situation where it is attempting to manage a database cache, but the cache is damaged and unresponsive. If you have determined (from section H1) that the problem is likely a database access problem, refer to section H3. Otherwise, refer to section H8.