SUMMARY: uninterruptible sleeping process

From: Keith Hunt <keith_at_uakron.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:48:29 -0400

Thanks to all of you who responded. Alan offered a useful thought to check
the resource it was waiting on (the WCHAN in ps) and try to free that, but
I had no luck there. Eventually I had to reboot the hard way, since the
system would not come down normally.

For all those who suggested the kill command, that does no good when a
process becomes uninterruptible. Also, an uninterruptible process is not
the same thing as a zombie.

And for those who pointed out that I probably meant "_without_ rebooting"
instead of "with rebooting", well, your reading skills are obviously better
than my typing skills.

********* original question follows **********
I am in a bit of a bind. My Netscape Enterprise Server process has gone
into an uninterruptible sleeping state. Does anyone know how to kill it
with rebooting? I am running 4.0F.

Keith Hunt keith_at_uakron.edu
Distributed Systems
The University of Akron



Keith Hunt keith_at_uakron.edu
Distributed Systems
The University of Akron
Received on Thu Apr 20 2000 - 21:49:11 NZST

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