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I found this under the man page of ps (RTFM, right?):
PROCESS STATE CODES
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R runnable (on run queue)
S sleeping
T traced or stopped
Z a defunct ("zombie") process
For BSD formats and when the "stat" keyword is used, additional letters
may be displayed:
W has no resident pages
< high-priority process
N low-priority task
L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
I guess "D" means I/O, but "uninterruptible sleep???" Hello?
I don't know what it means by "uninterruptible."
I'm sort of stuck now though. I don't know how to go about finding the root
of the issue. I'm going to dig a bit online and into the ps manual. Again,
this thing has no parent.
/mario
On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:03, you as Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >7328 ? D 0:00
> >7454 ? D 0:09
> >7602 ? D 0:08
> >
> >/mario
>
> 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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