From: Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com>
To: Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxkernel1099624161@astro.swin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:17:23 -0600
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 21:10, Tim Connors wrote:

> 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.

But it *is* a process hung in D state after you sent it a kill.  It's safe to 
assume, at least, that something is screwed up somewhere.  More information 
is always a good thing.

--Russell

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