Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:46:52 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: indestructible processes won't die Message-ID: <9510181346.AA05143@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510180856.BAA03424@MediaCity.com> References: <199510180856.BAA03424@MediaCity.com>
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<<On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:56:26 -0700 (PDT), Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> said: > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 26783 p6- IEs 0:00.31 (zsh) > 26795 p6- IE+ 0:24.38 pine > These processes running on pseudo tty p6 will not die. A kill > and kill -9 have no affect on them. The reason `kill' has no effect is because they are already trying hard to exit, but have gotten blocked for some reason. This can happen for a number of reasons: - dirty mmap()ed data structures getting unmapped - tty is trying to drain but prevented from doing so - the close of open files is blocking - the write of accounting records is blocking > Why are they stuck? And how does one unstuck them? Fix the cause of the block, or reboot. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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