On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:26:03AM +0000, Freminlins wrote: > Hello, > > I have a process which I cannot kill. It is stuck in the START state. Top > shows this: > > 37028 frem 1 100 0 0K 0K START 5:20 6.54% acroread > > and ps shows this: > frem 37028 6.5 0.0 0 0 v0 RE 2:40PM 5:20.33 [acroread] > > There is no entry for this pid under /proc. > > > How do I actually kill this process? It's been running for over a day now. > I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 Release.
It's a bug, I'm not sure if it's still present in 6.1. It's not actually continuing to use CPU though, so it's not too much to worry about. Kris
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