Dave Wyatt wrote: > I have several processes with a D status listed on the > ps -ax output. This means "uninterruptible sleep > (usually IO)" according to man. > > How do I kill these processes? I have tried the usual > kill [pid]command. BTW, This is on a RH 6.2 (E-Smith) > system running as a FTP server and I really don't want > to reboot the system if at all possible.
I don't believe that you can kill such a process. It will be there until you reboot. The system set up an I/O operation that it didn't want interrupted and that should have finished quickly, but for some reason it didn't. I had that happen once when I ran into a vfat file system bug. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
