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Date:      06 Aug 2001 11:20:40 -0700
From:      swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PID with a 'D' status - what to do?
Message-ID:  <vlhevlyrrb.evl@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010806080030.A76146@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> writes:

> Did you try 'kill -9 <pid>'?

from ps man page:
    D       Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-
            ruptible) wait.

And it MEANS "uninterruptible"; though I wonder if, sometimes,
careful use of kldunload(8) would make some go away.

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