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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:24:08 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:33, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:26:23 EST, Gene Heskett said:
>>
>>>Well, since the "device", a bt878 based Haupagge tv card is
>>>sitting in a pci socket, thats even more drastic than a reboot.
>>
>>Not if you have a good hot-swap PCI cage. ;)
>>
>>Anyhow, that points even more at a driver issue for the bt878 -
>>if you can get Sysrq-T output, where does it say the hung process is
>>inside the kernel?
> 
> 
> Thats another thing I've had compiled in since forever, but it so 
> seldom actually *works*, I've tended to forget about it.
> 
You have it enabled as well as compiled in, I'm sure.

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