Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 22:48:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? Message-ID: <19990808224844.A9943@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <37ADDD06.4EE3FEB7@ispro.net.tr>; from "Evren Yurtesen" on Sun Aug 8 22:39:51 GMT 1999 References: <37ADDD06.4EE3FEB7@ispro.net.tr>
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In the last episode (Aug 08), Evren Yurtesen said: > 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<E - 0:00.00 (pico) > root 8026 0.0 0.0 40088 0 p0- DE - 0:00.00 (ee) The E in the STAT column means 'exiting', and the D means 'in uninterruptible wait'. E usually means you have hit ^S on the console and the process is trying to flush its output. I'd like to see what a "ps axl" on those processes looks like (the wchan column specifically). -- 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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