From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 12:18:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA7916A41A for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D23E13C458 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0965C1CC079; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:18:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:18:52 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Honza Holakovsky Message-ID: <20071127121852.GA58325@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20071126190720.GD19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:18:52 -0000 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:05:21PM +0100, Honza Holakovsky wrote: > Thanks for reply, > > I tried to kill the process via all possibilities described in man kill :) > But I didn't know there are some processes which can't be killed, so I tried > again running wdfs, but after "ps -xacu | grep wdfs" I see > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 971 73,9 0,9 19048 5552 ?? Rs 1:03od 0:15,36 wdfs > > no D state :( > I'm quite confused, because in state, I have to reboor every time I umount > wdfs drive :( Is it possible to truss or ktrace that process? It would be interesting to know what it's doing (re: chewing up 74% CPU). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |