From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 9:23:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server7.singular.com (server7.singular.com [204.140.208.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87DF150E8 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbarbee@singular.com) Received: from farpoint (adsl-209-233-135-9.pacbell.net [209.233.135.9]) by server7.singular.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA07466 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbarbee@singular.com) From: "John Barbee" To: Subject: killing processing in disk Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:23:17 -0800 Message-ID: <000201be6275$dd96b610$0700a8c0@farpoint> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Is there a good way to kill processing that are in disk? Sending the KILL signal to the process doesn't help, which makes sense since being in disk is an uninterruptible wait. But I was wondering if anyone knew how to get around that short of restarting the machine. john. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message