From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: webserver stalls [was Re: bug in (linux) slattach]
Date: 30 Oct 2002 12:31:27 +0200
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> On 29 Oct 2002, Harry Kalogirou wrote:
> 
> > > Diagnosing this stuff is very time-consuming because "kill" doesn't seem 
> > > to do anything, so I must reboot both machines. Since ELKS "telnet" 
> > 
> > The kernel in the CVS will probably handle this more gracefully and
> > actualy the process.
> 
> I don't understand your reply. When I issue "kill <process id>" from the 
> command line the process is still reported by "ps" and there's no evidence 
> that the process has actually been killed. I think kill.c calls the 
> kernel function.
> 

Ofcource the "kill" calles the kernel and the kernel kills the process.
So try the latest kernel from the CVS and you might get better results.

Harry