On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ? > > I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the > process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote > machine, and I see the scp process is still running. I've been unable to > kill it. Any ideas? (Also, any process on the cdrom, such as "ls > /cdrom", also hangs, and I can't kill it either.) > It is stuck on a blocking I/O call somewhere in the kernel. This happened to me when a friend plugged a faulty USB key into my machine. I had to reboot it after 77 days :-(
The reason is that completely killing a process that is lost in the kernel is a Bad Idea(TM). The `kill -9` just zombifies the process until it returns from the kernel and then it dies naturally. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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