[Gllug] How to kill a rogue process

[Tethys]

"Hari Pillai" writes:

>Just wondering, is there a way to find out what is the process waiting
>for?. How would you know its waiting for I/O?

The marvelously undocumented wchan field in ps will give you more info
about what the process is doing. It's not in the default output, so
you'll have to explicitly tell it which fields to display:

	ps -eopid,tt,user,fname,stat,wchan

Tet

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