Re: [LUG] How to *really* kill processes?

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Waters wrote:

> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>  
>
> > For some reason, Samba has decided to spawn literally hundreds of
> > processed which are now in "D" state (not sure what that means).
> >    
>
> man ps
>
> /state
>
> "D Uninterruptible sleep (Usually IO)
>  
Ahh, that'll be it.

> You can't interrupt processes in uninterruptible states I fear.
>  
Well, I'd guess not.

> Check if there are any outstanding updates for kernel/filesystems or
> samba - as you shouldn't hit this sort of problem - honest.
>  
I'm running Debian stable on that machine!  I thought I was playing it 
safe...

> As I understand it in certain system calls most *nix systems can't
> terminate nicely, so they aren't allowed to terminate at all, which is
> find till the call never returns.
>  
Nasty...

Cheers,

Jon


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