On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 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 process may also be a zombie... this has been discussed on this list and is a Unix FAQ ... http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC13 In such cases, you need to find and clean up the parent of the zombie and then wait a moment for the process table to get cleaned up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
