%% MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: md> 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
md> this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead md> process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. It's possible, under severe error conditions, to get processes which won't respond to kill -9 on any kernel. The KILL signal may not be blocked by the process in user space, but that doesn't mean that it can't be blocked by the kernel in kernel space, and it often is. Simply whacking a process within the kernel at the instant you kill -9 would leave all sorts of resources unreleased, etc. etc. Remember that when you kill a user process the kernel cleans up all its memory, open file descriptors, etc. after it. If you kill a process within the kernel, who cleans up after that? Thus, the kernel doesn't allow processes to just disappear no matter what state they may be in within the kernel itself. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
