From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 21:20:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22899 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22890 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA26594; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:20:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: laszlo vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cant kill it In-Reply-To: <199806032357.SAA02965@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> 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 On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, laszlo vagner wrote: > this is real bad for my uptime. > > i cant understand why even a kill -9 wouldnt kill it. rumba emulates an NFS filesystem, and NFS calls don't time out. Unfortunately there isn't a mechanism to interrupt specific system calls while they're waiting on something (probably a read()) by another system call, so it's stuck for good. > is there any work in progress to fix this problem? Not that I'm aware of. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message