[geeks] Disksleep

[Jochen Kunz]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:

> I have a big brother process thats disk sleeping on a pipe and I need 
> to kill it.  Is there a magic google incantation that will yield a 
> tool to assist me or must I *gasp* reboot the box?  The machine is 
> running linux 2.2.14.
AFAIK a process that hangs in "D" can not be killed. If "kill -KILL"
does not help, you have to reboot(8) the machine to get rid of the 
process. (Or do nasty things with the non-existend kernel debugger...)
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tsch|_,
         Jochen

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