Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262583AbUKEDMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:12:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262582AbUKEDMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:12:50 -0500 Received: from c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au ([136.186.1.30]:20742 "EHLO swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262585AbUKEDMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:12:44 -0500 To: Elladan Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Russell Miller , Doug McNaught , Jim Nelson , DervishD , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, M?ns Rullg?rd From: Tim Connors Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? In-reply-to: <20041105023850.GC17010@eskimo.com> References: <200411030751.39578.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <87k6t24jsr.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> <200411031733.30469.rmiller@duskglow.com> <200411040839.34350.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20041105023850.GC17010@eskimo.com> X-test-to: Elladan X-cc-to: Denis Vlasenko , Russell Miller , Doug McNaught , Jim Nelson , DervishD , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, M?ns Rullg?rd X-reply-to-bofh-messageid: <2X2kV-1Ji-21@gated-at.bofh.it> X-Face: "0\RuOFb6AcQ}B_F/^%;;AmS%>"qr*^0t%eriBMe_x]B7&@b8_\i Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:10:35 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 17 Elladan said on Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:50 -0800: > If a process is in D state and receives a SIGKILL, assume it must exit > within a few seconds or it's a bug, and dump as much information about > it as is practical...? Of course, it's not necessarily a bug. Someone could have just kicked the ethernet, and so your process is stuck waiting for a read/write. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Theoretically one might have been wearing pants at work. -- Anthony de Boer in Scary Devil Monastry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/