From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 0: 7:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9A3237B401 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 14453 invoked by uid 100); 6 Aug 2001 07:07:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15214.16928.322835.749014@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:07:12 -0500 To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PID with a 'D' status - what to do? In-Reply-To: <85913237@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types: > What is the proper way to deal with a PID having a "D" status - i.e., > it's uninterruptable - so that I can 'shutdown' cleanly? D is supposed to be a short term wait. If it's waiting on something that's never going to happen, you might as well ignore it and shut down anyway. What's it waiting on? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message