[Gllug] How to kill a rogue process

Hari Pillai hari at pillai.co.uk
Thu Nov 14 16:56:24 UTC 2002


Mick,
Just wondering, is there a way to find out what is the process waiting
for?. How would you know its waiting for I/O?
I had similar problem, and had to reboot the machine..just trying to
find out is there any other way without rebooting the machine.
Thanks
Hari



-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf
Of Mick Farmer
Sent: 14 November 2002 16:52
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] How to kill a rogue process 

Dear Tethys,

If it's waiting for I/O, then you can't kill it, even with
kill -9.  The only solution is to restart your machine.

Regards,

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