Re: Force kill a process?

2006/7/11, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:

You cannot kill processes that are in the D state.  They are in
uninterruptable sleep in the kernel.
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John Hasler


excuse me for my ignorance, but what is the D state, please?

Thanks and regards.

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heba

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