Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:25:36 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> Cc: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing processes Message-ID: <20001031142536.B22110@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001031221448.O39296@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:14:48PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.001031193942.u98jobj@stud.hh.se> <20001031221448.O39296@draenor.org>
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> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:39:42PM +0200, Joel Bjork wrote:
> > I have a couple of processes stuck in this state:
> >
> > moster 81345 0.0 1.0 1112 720 ?? Ds Fri03PM
> >
> > kill nor kill -9 works, is there any way to kill these processes short of
> > rebooting the machine?
* Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> [001031 12:15] wrote:
> Try (if possible, and if it's there) to find the parent pid for this
> process. Killing that may release the children processes from whatever
> wait state they're currently in. :)
That's incorrect in this case.
That would be state 'Z' for zombie, killing a parent of a zombie
will make it go away, however Joel's process is in 'D' which is:
D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-
ruptible) wait.
So Joel is basically stuck with this guy until he fixes whatever
is making the process stuck, or reboots.
These states are listed in the manpage for ps(1).
--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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