Re: [ILUG] killing a process

From: Dave Airlie (David.Airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 15 May 2000 - 11:10:18 IST


On Mon, 15 May 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:13:56AM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh mentioned:
> > grrr.. named has crashed on me somehow and I can't kill it. I blame the
> > excessive number of expect scripts that had stalled.
> > anyway, the following didn't work:
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop
> > kill -9 2170
> > killall -9 named
>
> If kill -9 doesn't kill it, it's a Zombie, and it's not got any
> sockets/ports open anyway. Just start a new named.

Or it is stuck in the D state which means inside a system call, do ps auxl
I think and look at the WCHAN field and it will say where in the kernel it
is stuck, it may be a kernel bug.. you running latest etc?

Dave.

>
> Kate
>
>

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