On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Sending a SIGKILL (-9) to a process is a "sure" way to kill the process,
> but processes in I/O wait state will not receive the signal until they
> come out of I/O wait. If you can't kill it with kill -9, you just can't
> kill it... If you do a ps aux you'll probably see that the process's
> status is `D' indicating I/O wait state. If it isn't, something on your
> system is amiss! :)
Yup, it shows its status as 'D', and I will reboot the machine this
evening. Thanks for the reply.
Scott
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