on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:31:26PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then > unkillable > processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down > properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it > runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's > mozilla .9. I have 2 processes sitting there doing nothing but preventing > me starting netscape as a user. ps aux shows: > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 28888 4876 tty1 D May10 0:00 > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
The process is in an uninterruptible sleep state. This is almost the same thing as a zombie state. Likely it's communicating (or trying to communicate) with a parent or child. I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9. True unkillable zombies are rather rare. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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