Re: can not kill a process
In article <[🔎] 20040413115244.228f1e90.vdongen@hetisw.nl> you wrote:
>> # kill -9 2965
>> # ps ax
>> 2965 ? RW 3:21 [nopromo]
> This is a zombie process, google is your friend.....may the web be with
> you
Zombies are in the Z state, and it helps usually to kill their parents.
RW is running and paging, which should be killable, but very seldom, looks
more like a corrupted kernel data structure.
Besides Zombie processes and uniterruptible sleeps (common to nfs and with
disk problems) you can also see unkillable kernel threads, but it is unusual
to have a kernel thread with that high pid.
I would go for a reboot, but dont expect the machine to reboot without a reset/powercycle.
Greetings
Bernd
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