[geeks] Disksleep

[Big Endian]

>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...)

Thats what I've ended up doing.  I was hoping for some magic utility 
that can work with /dev/kmem and find and remove the process and/or 
cure the disksleep.

daniel
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