Hey folks, One of our users has a few processes that are refusing to die - according to /proc, they all have open file descriptors to his mailbox, and are all listed as being in the uninterruptible sleep mode. I assume that they are all stuck in I/O wait on that file for some reason - at any rate, Is there any way to kill these guys short of a reboot? Something to force-close file descriptors, maybe, or some random other trick someone can pull out of their hat?
~Tom White ------------------------ http://www.oddquad.org/ ------------------------ As a child I was apprenticed to the mightiest magician of all, the great Nikos, whom I have spoken of before. But even Nikos, who could turn cats into cattle, snowflakes into snowdrops, and unicorns into men, could not change me into so much as a carnival cardsharp. At last he said to me, 'My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
