Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Communicator crash; kill -9 won't remove (pre-10!) | | Date | Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:23:47 -0500 | | From | Evan Jeffrey <> |
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>> > kernel is hanging and why, as well as if there should be something done in > >> > the kernel to help fix the problem (depends on if it's a netscape bug or a > >> > kernel bug). >> >> A process unable to be killed by kill -9 is a kernel problem - always >> > >... unless it is in a "D" state in which case it may also be a disk >hardware problem.
Shouldn't the disk controllers either A) time out and retry/fail or B) Trigger a VFS panic/remount ro/whatever?
Evan Jeffrey === Evan Jeffrey erjeffre@artsci.wustl.edu
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