Re: [SLUG] *really* killing a process

From: Ronan Heffernan (ronanh@auctionsolutions.com)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 11:03:21 EST


Mario Lombardo wrote:

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>I'm trying to kill the following processes, first with no flag and then with
>- -9
>They won't die. Why?
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>7328 ? D 0:00
>7454 ? D 0:09
>7602 ? D 0:08
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>/mario
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I am pretty sure that the status "D" that you see indicates that the
process is blocked waiting for a device (disk, NIC, etc).

--ronan

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