Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:38:31 -0800 | From | Elladan <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? |
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:10:35PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com> said on Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:50 -0800: > > If a process is in D state and receives a SIGKILL, assume it must exit > > within a few seconds or it's a bug, and dump as much information about > > it as is practical...? > > Of course, it's not necessarily a bug. Someone could have just kicked > the ethernet, and so your process is stuck waiting for a read/write.
Sounds like a bug to me. Kernel resource leak due to network activity?
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