[plug] kill them dead

[Adrian Chadd]

It doesn't hvae to be a kernel bug.

You can't kill -9 a process locked waiting for NFS IO to complete, IIRC.
There's more examples of that. Its certainly not a bug. :)


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006, Michael Holland wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> > I have some processes that misbehave then refuse to die even when I
> > issue 'kill -15 pid' or 'kill -9 pid' or 'pkill -9 process'.
> 
> If -9 doesn't work, it's a kernel bug, and the next step is a reboot,
> possibly a hard reset. Suspect a bad device driver. Any idea what they are
> doing?
> 
> 
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