Not long ago, Ryan Byrd proclaimed... > so I have a bunch(227) of processes that refuse to die. my top load > average is 232.58 currently. Here's a ps -auxww of one of those > processes: > > nagios 5574 0.0 0.3 8276 2968 ? D 09:08 0:00 > /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_replication.php > > > you'll notice that the processes are in the "D" state which seems to > indicate that they can not be interrupted. > > Anyway to kill them without rebooting?
Find out what resource they have filehandles open on. Use the 'lsof'
command to to this.
You can't kill a process while it still has filehandles open. Keep in mind,
if you ungracefully reboot a system like this... you take a chance of
corrupting the filesystem.
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