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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:18:52 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Honza Holakovsky <holakac@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID
Message-ID:  <20071127121852.GA58325@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <f996cc420711270405u539d2fccrdbce005d14e88834@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f996cc420711260730n1b226483la2b813753f9496f8@mail.gmail.com> <20071126190720.GD19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f996cc420711270405u539d2fccrdbce005d14e88834@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:05:21PM +0100, Honza Holakovsky wrote:
> Thanks for reply,
> 
> I tried to kill the process via all possibilities described in man kill :)
> But I didn't know there are some processes which can't be killed, so I tried
> again running wdfs, but after "ps -xacu | grep wdfs" I see
> 
> USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root      971 73,9  0,9 19048  5552  ??  Rs    1:03od   0:15,36 wdfs
> 
> no D state :(
> I'm quite confused, because in state, I have to reboor every time I umount
> wdfs drive :(

Is it possible to truss or ktrace that process?  It would be interesting
to know what it's doing (re: chewing up 74% CPU).

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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