From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 13:36:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 13:36:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18F137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB6LaQr86826; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:36:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@advancewebhosting.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:36:26 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: Ryan Younce Cc: Corey Brune , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. In-Reply-To: <20001206160200.A19885@cheshire.manunkind.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've encounted times where there was a single apache child/parent process running which could not be killed. A reboot would cause the system to hang because the process could not be killed. That only happens once in a while tho. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ryan Younce wrote: > Thus spake Corey Brune : > > Your process is trying to exit. Try killing the child (pid 27200) first- this will eliminate > > possible zombies, and then check if the parent had died. > > A process cannot be "trying" to exit with a kill -KILL like he had sent, > regardless of the number of child processes or the state of the child > processes. There's something else going on if it is a system issue at all. > > Also, how will killing a child process possibly -eliminate- zombies, unless > the child itself is a parent to a zombie process? > > -- > Ryan Cheshire Younce | "This option may be useful if file system changes have > ryan @ manunkind.org | been made manually or if the processor is on fire." > manunkind.org/~ryan/ | --reboot(2), 4.4BSD, on the RB_NOSYNC option flag > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message