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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
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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]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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