From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 19:36:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722F637B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:34:20 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1B3a5Y63899; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:36:04 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Steve Price Cc: Dru , Josh Paetzel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: killing a stuck process Message-ID: <20010210193604.C62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010210210627.N41356@bsd.havk.org> <20010210211841.O41356@bsd.havk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010210211841.O41356@bsd.havk.org>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:18:41PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:18:41PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:04:37PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > > > > I tried those as well. In fact I did this and it still didn't > > > go away. > > > > > > # for s in `jot 32`; do kill -$s 46086 ; done > > > > > > > Have you tried: > > > > kill -USR1 46086 > > Yes. 'kill -USR1 46086' == 'kill -31 46086' Yes, yes, if those are processes trying to access a bad NFS and it was softmounted, it will not timeout and they cannot be killed. However, you should be able to reboot the system, # shutdown -r now Or the less graceful, # reboot Should work fine. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message