From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 23:26: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413E614E03 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA81573; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:56:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908110626.PAA81573@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? In-Reply-To: from Robert Sowders at "Aug 10, 1999 08:06:02 pm" To: Robert Sowders Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:56:40 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Did you try kill -9 7991? > > >>> Evren Yurtesen 8/8/99 12:39:51 PM >>> > hello, > I have 2 processes and I am not able to kill them > what is the problem? I have heard about the zombie processes > are these that kind of processes? (well I do not have any clue > about what is a zombie process. Where can I learn it from?) > > root 7991 0.0 0.0 45044 0 p1- D root 8026 0.0 0.0 40088 0 p0- DE - 0:00.00 (ee) > > Evren kill -9 won't work. Read the ps manual page and you'll see under a discussion of process states: D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter- ruptible) wait. Note the word _uninterruptible_. It'll just ignore all those little signals you're sending to it until it gets the resource it wants. There is a way to get some idea of what its looking for but I can't remember the exact details (search the mailing lists). You should also note that the 'E' in the state indicates the process is trying to exit (i.e. its doing its best to die anyway!). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message