Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Connors <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:10:35 +1100 |
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Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com> said on Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:50 -0800: > If a process is in D state and receives a SIGKILL, assume it must exit > within a few seconds or it's a bug, and dump as much information about > it as is practical...?
Of course, it's not necessarily a bug. Someone could have just kicked the ethernet, and so your process is stuck waiting for a read/write.
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