On Wed, 23 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 28888 4876 tty1 D May10 0:00 > > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin > > this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead
I believe this was corrected in kernel 2.4.4 as I got such process when running 2.4.3 on a SMP machine. BTW, only a reboot will kill such processes, as said bellow by MaD dUCK. > process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way you > can remove it without a reboot. the process is in "uniterruptible > sleep" state (implying it's doing some kind of i/o), but it's > definitely not interested in handling signals (even SIGKILL, which > you're the kernel isn't supposed to let you ignore). had plenty of > them, never succeeded without a reboot. but what do you care? just > leave them? they aren't eating anything away. > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem? > -- alec flett @netscape > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
