Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:20:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cant kill it Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604211913.26356K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806032357.SAA02965@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, laszlo vagner wrote: > this is real bad for my uptime. > > i cant understand why even a kill -9 wouldnt kill it. rumba emulates an NFS filesystem, and NFS calls don't time out. Unfortunately there isn't a mechanism to interrupt specific system calls while they're waiting on something (probably a read()) by another system call, so it's stuck for good. > is there any work in progress to fix this problem? Not that I'm aware of. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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