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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2007 16:40:32 -0300
From:      Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no respond to KILL -9 or any signal
Message-ID:  <20070508164032.026e08e4.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
In-Reply-To: <200705082039.57556.nd@syndicat.com>
References:  <200705082039.57556.nd@syndicat.com>

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On Tue, 8 May 2007 20:39:57 +0200
Niels Dettenbach <nd@syndicat.com> wrote:

> ps afux says the proces are in state "DL" - wich doesn't change after a
> "kill" or "kill -9 " - i didn't found any way to get the procs killed or
> cleaned out.

>From ps(1):

       D       Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-
               ruptible) wait.

       L       Marks a process that is waiting to acquire a lock.

Disk waits are non-interruptible, so the process won't get your KILL signals
(thus won't change state).

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez@wait4.org
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