Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:34:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Tom Zerucha <> | Subject | Re: How do I kill a process that is locked to a resource |
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On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, joost witteveen wrote:
> Well, I don't know about the -force option, but > mount -o remount,ro /usr > usually does the job for me (when I had "rm" processes eating 100%CPU, > that I couldn't kill).
It might, but it shows that something is hard-locked on the SCSI bus (I have a smart terminator with lights for req and ack). using kill -9, it won't kill the process that this has occured on. Sometimes it dies if I can convince the SCSI bus to abort (usually involves shutting off something on the SCSI chain).
This is a deadlock condition - I can't unmount the device because a process owns it, and I can't kill the process because it is stuck in the middle of a tranfer with the device.
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