From: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:22:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC6A841.34AEB2BC@loewe-komp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC6097F.79B6E2D1@nortelnetworks.com>
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 :)
What are the parameters of "find"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-12 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 21:05 so, no way to kill process? have to reboot? Christopher Friesen
2001-10-11 23:08 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-12 6:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-12 11:36 ` Terje Eggestad
2001-10-12 8:22 ` Peter Wächtler [this message]
2001-10-12 10:06 ` Ability to kill (was: Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot?) vda
2001-10-12 13:42 ` so, no way to kill process? have to reboot? Christopher Friesen
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