unable to kill process, problem with FBSD6?

[peceka]

2007/8/17, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at kuzbass.ru>:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:47:01AM +0200, peceka wrote:
>
> > I've got strange problem. I've setup pound on my FBSD6 box and
> > sometimes it (pound) stops. Normally it should exit but it doesn't -
> > it hangs.
> >
> > # ps auwx | grep pound
> > pound   46868  0.0  1.0 55428 21932  ??  SE    1:58PM   0:31.34
> > /usr/local/sbin/pound -f /usr/local/etc/pound.cfg
> >
> > S: Marks a process that is sleeping for less than about 20 seconds.
> > E: The process is trying to exit.
> >
> > It dies after 30 minutes.
> >
> > This problem doesn't exists on Linux.
> >
> > This behaviour is very irregular.
> > Why FBSD doesn't kill this process?
>
> It does if it become 'trying to exit'.
> It may have a serial device open and bugs in the driver may prevent
> process from closing device in timely manner. Try switching to uart(4) driver
> from sio(4) if this is your case.

But pound (web reverse proxy: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) has nothing
common with serial device. So this solution is not for me. :(

Regards,
p.