Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:36:26 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> To: Ryan Younce <ryan@manunkind.org> Cc: Corey Brune <brune@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012061635300.86799-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <20001206160200.A19885@cheshire.manunkind.org>
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I've encounted times where there was a single apache child/parent process running which could not be killed. A reboot would cause the system to hang because the process could not be killed. That only happens once in a while tho. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ryan Younce wrote: > Thus spake Corey Brune <brune@sdf.lonestar.org>: > > Your process is trying to exit. Try killing the child (pid 27200) first- this will eliminate > > possible zombies, and then check if the parent had died. > > A process cannot be "trying" to exit with a kill -KILL like he had sent, > regardless of the number of child processes or the state of the child > processes. There's something else going on if it is a system issue at all. > > Also, how will killing a child process possibly -eliminate- zombies, unless > the child itself is a parent to a zombie process? > > -- > Ryan Cheshire Younce | "This option may be useful if file system changes have > ryan @ manunkind.org | been made manually or if the processor is on fire." > manunkind.org/~ryan/ | --reboot(2), 4.4BSD, on the RB_NOSYNC option flag > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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