On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:05:43AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] > 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.
I have seen such unkillable processes crop up on NFS clients, in cases of server failure. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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