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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:52:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: killing a stuck process
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102102150340.14360-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <01021020553603.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net>

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, 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

That might not work because they're waiting on NFS resources. A signal 3
(quit) or signal 2 (int) should do the trick, though.

Dru



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