hi all
this discussion has been up a few times, but I want it again. I _REALLY_ want
to be able to kill processes in D state. I am aware of that this is not good,
but compared to other parts of the linux kernel, there's quite a lot suicidal
stuff there already, so why not. There is, for instance, in 2.5, the
possibility to forcably remove loaded modules - FAR worse than merely killing
a userspace process in D state.
So please, dear kernel people, Free Thy Users From Those Terrible Unreasonable
Reboots.
regards
roy
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On Monday 02 June 2003 11:58, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi all
>
> this discussion has been up a few times, but I want it again. I _REALLY_
> want to be able to kill processes in D state. I am aware of that this is
> not good, but compared to other parts of the linux kernel, there's quite a
> lot suicidal stuff there already, so why not. There is, for instance, in
> 2.5, the possibility to forcably remove loaded modules - FAR worse than
> merely killing a userspace process in D state.
>
> So please, dear kernel people, Free Thy Users From Those Terrible
> Unreasonable Reboots.
I would _completely_ agree with this.
(One [REPOST] in subject is enough)
>
> regards
>
> roy
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> this discussion has been up a few times, but I want it again. I _REALLY_ want
> to be able to kill processes in D state. I am aware of that this is not good,
> but compared to other parts of the linux kernel, there's quite a lot suicidal
> stuff there already, so why not. There is, for instance, in 2.5, the
> possibility to forcably remove loaded modules - FAR worse than merely killing
> a userspace process in D state.
>
> So please, dear kernel people, Free Thy Users From Those Terrible Unreasonable
> Reboots.
Do you understand why processes in D state are unkillable? What do you
think you would gain by killing them, since the memory couldn't be safely
reused? Just not seeing the process in ps?
I can see wanting to avoid having processes in D state, but once you get
such a thing I don't see why the kernel should have a lot of code added to
hide a problem. A reboot *is* a way to kill a process in D state.
In general most of the process should page out, so you only lose some swap
space. I don't get processes in this state, so I can't really check the
RSS and verify that.
Tell the developers how you get the processes in that state and ask for
that to be prevented, and you will find a lot more support.
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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
Hi!
> this discussion has been up a few times, but I want it again. I _REALLY_ want
So you need to implement it. I do not
see why you should bother mailing list
*3 times* with it...
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Pavel
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