mike, as always, this was a very informative post! i think i may have something to add.
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you send a "kill -9" and the process does not die instantly, then > you have a kernel bug... there is no way to "block" or "hide" from kill -9. > So you have a kernel bug. as you point out, processes in "uninterruptable sleep" can't be killed with SIGKILL. the process is put to sleep while the kernel waits for some event to happen. this corresponds to process status "D". as you point out, it can be kernel bug. often a race condition. but it can also be caused by hardware failure. the chipset in question is known to have issues in both linux and windows. pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
