From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unkillable process in R state?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:19:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC5E29D.988466F6@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0110111645410.18253-100000@yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk> <3BC5CD56.2E69C578@nortelnetworks.com> <20011011192520.A27394@dea.linux-mips.net>
Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:48:22PM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>
> > I have a process (an instance of a find command) that seems to be
> > unkillable (ie kill -9 <pid> as root doesn't work).
> >
> > Top shows it's status as R.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to kill the thing? It's taking up all unused cpu
> > cycles (currently at 97.4%).
>
> I assume that's kapm-idled. That's normal, it's job is exactly burning
> unused cycles.
Um, no.
As I specified, it is an instance of a "find" command, and it just won't die.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-11 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 15:22 NetFilter: Problem in adding additional header using NetFilter Shiva Raman Pandey
2001-10-11 15:53 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-11 16:09 ` Sound on Vaio partially dies between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 Greg Ingram
2001-10-11 16:48 ` unkillable process in R state? Christopher Friesen
2001-10-11 17:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-10-11 18:19 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2001-10-11 18:19 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-11 19:18 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-11 22:19 ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-11 22:57 ` James Sutherland
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