From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 19: 2:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129AE37B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:02:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-118-73.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.118.73]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14Rmlv-0006JY-00; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:01:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:52:20 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Steve Price , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: killing a stuck process In-Reply-To: <01021020553603.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message