Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:22:25 +0200 | From | Peter Wächtler <> | Subject | Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot? |
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Christopher Friesen wrote: > > Well, the unkillable process continues on. Does nobody else have any ideas on > how to kill an unkillable process in the R state thats sucking up all my unused > cpu cycles? > > If not I'm going to have to reboot this thing... >
Well, I'd suspect it in "D" state - waiting for some disk I/O to finish...
But in "R" with your described behavior looks like a bug. If you care about the CPU time waisted: what about kill -STOP <pid>?
Can you describe your filesystem layout? I think of a symlink recursion bug or something wrong in /dev/shm or alike... (no flame, just guessing :)
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