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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: can't "kill -9" processes on Ultrix/RISC
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:26:11 GMT
- References: <JOY8ZMC@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
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- In article <JOY8ZMC@gwdu03.gwdg.de> moeller@gwdgv1.gwdg.de writes:
- >Maybe someone in this group has seen it before:
- >
- >On Ultrix/RISC 4.2A we often find processes that
- >can't be killed (by root, "kill -9") - short of a reboot.
- >
- >Is this expected behaviour under some circumstances?
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- Yes, especially if the process is stuck in D state waiting for a disk or
- NFS server (and the partition is hard mounted). Annoying, isn't it?
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