no respond to KILL -9 or any signal

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Tue, 8 May 2007 20:39:57 +0200
Niels Dettenbach <nd at syndicat.com> wrote:

> ps afux says the proces are in state "DL" - wich doesn't change after a
> "kill" or "kill -9 " - i didn't found any way to get the procs killed or
> cleaned out.

>From ps(1):

       D       Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-
               ruptible) wait.

       L       Marks a process that is waiting to acquire a lock.

Disk waits are non-interruptible, so the process won't get your KILL signals
(thus won't change state).

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez at wait4.org
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