From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 11:18:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.localdomain (host68.207.55.120.aadsl.com [207.55.120.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E6537B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@aa.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f76IKfC44384; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@aa.net) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@aa.net using -f To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PID with a 'D' status - what to do? References: <85913237@toto.iv> <15214.16928.322835.749014@guru.mired.org> <20010806052259.A231411@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> <20010806080030.A76146@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 06 Aug 2001 11:20:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20010806080030.A76146@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Louis LeBlanc writes: > Did you try 'kill -9 '? from ps man page: D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter- ruptible) wait. And it MEANS "uninterruptible"; though I wonder if, sometimes, careful use of kldunload(8) would make some go away. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message