Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:06:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Killing a process? Message-ID: <19980617140604.A5620@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617232903.4461A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from "Dean Hollister" on Wed Jun 17 23:29:14 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617232903.4461A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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In the last episode (Jun 17), Dean Hollister said: > I have a process that has the "D" flag on it, according to the man > page: > > "D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptable) > wait" > > So how can I kill it? Find out what it's waiting for, and try to free up the resource. Processes in the "D" state do not respond to signals, so you can't just kill -9 it. If you're a kernel hacker, you can do a "ps axl" and find out what the kernel is waiting on. The "WCHAN" column says where in the kernel the process is sleeping. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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