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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:01:04 -0600
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: killing a stuck process
Message-ID:  <20010210210104.M41356@bsd.havk.org>
In-Reply-To: <01021020553603.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:55:08PM %2B0000
References:  <20010210202520.L41356@bsd.havk.org> <01021020553603.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net>

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On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:55:08PM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Steve Price wrote:
> > Is there any way of killing a stuck process like this?
> > 
> > root@ralph(~)# ps -awx | grep apache
> > 46086  ??  DL     0:07.72 /usr/local/sbin/apache -DSSL
> > 46088  ??  D      0:07.72 /usr/local/sbin/apache -DSSL
> > 
> > These are waiting on IO to an NFS-mounted drive that I
> > can mount/unmount because of these processes.  Rebooting
> > the box won't help either because it won't do that until
> > these processes go away.  Do I have any recourse except
> > to cycle power on the box?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Steve
> >
> 
> Have you tried #kill -9 46088
> ???

Yes.  It is stuck in an uninterruptable state waiting on
disk I/O so it doesn't even see/get this signal.  When this
has happened before a 'kill -INT 1' won't even get the box
to reboot.  The only way I could clear things up was to
cycle power on the box.  With the box being 2 hours from 
here it makes cycling power something I'd rather reserve as
my very last alternative.

-Steve


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