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- From: manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob Manson)
- Subject: Re: processes with "D" can not be killed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.162703.28312@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.081330.17439@e2big.mko.dec.com> tusia@decum.muh.dec.com (Dick Tusia) writes:
- > Once a proc is in the D state there is no way to kill it
- > until it changes state. This proc is in Disk wait or other short-term wait.
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- Yeah, we're still getting these periodically under 4.3. Donno what
- causes it, but it's waiting for the p_ref variable to go to zero, and
- since nothing claims to be ref'ing the process, it'll never do so.
- Whee. We've been periodically calling these in for well over a year
- now.
- Bob
- manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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