Re: killing 'dead' processes

On Thursday 12 August 2004 04:47 pm, thomson@mail.afabco.com wrote:
> how does one kill a "D" process?
>
> Googling indicates that you can either wait a Really Long Time (days,
> weeks) and if you're lucky it'll expire, or you have to power cycle it=2E
>
> C'mon, this is linux=2E That can't be right=2E=2E=2E
>
> TIA,
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> ps ax|grep D
>
> 7 ? DW 0:06 [pdflush]
> 3653 ? DW 0:01 [pdflush]
> 3827 pts2 D 0:03 cp -i ghost=2Ejpg thesis=2Etmp /mnt/dvd
> 3864 pts0 D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
> 3957 pts3 D 0:00 ls -F --color=3Dauto /mnt/dvd
> 4036 pts4 D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
> 4116 pts1 D 0:00 ls -F --color=3Dauto /mnt/dvd
>
> This is a DVD-RAM writer=2E My guess is the media has a bad spot in it=2E=
>
>
> from man ps:
>
> D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)

See if ya can unload the module.

bests,
eddie

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Received on Fri Aug 13 12:37:13 2004