Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 01:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 18:58:41 +1300]: > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > > The state ``D'' means uninterruptible. > > Any idea why? Blocked waiting for I/O perhaps? A DMA event that ha

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 18:58:41 +1300]: > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > The state ``D'' means uninterruptible. Any idea why? Blocked waiting for I/O perhaps? A DMA event that has not completed? It is a kernel question, but under what c

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 06:34:55AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms The state ``D'' means uninterruptible.

Re: [kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Russell
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:23, Rupert wrote: > > > > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > > > > > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > > > > > > > > > sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms > > >

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Gerald V. Livingston II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-03 13:34:01 -0600]: Please don't quote the entire message. Please trim your messages to reduce the clutter. > How about killing these? > root 31132 1 0 Oct31 ?00:00:00 [usb-storage-0] > root 31133 1 0 Oct31 ?

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:31:53AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote.. > You can find parents easily using the [1]other syntax of 'ps'. I > prefer this command. It will thread parent-child in a hierarchy which > you can easily find the bad parents. > > ps -efH | less I've noted this down in my l

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 00:31:17 +1100]: > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 00:31:17 +1100]: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > kosuke9027 0.0 0.0 0

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:31:17AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Won't work. processes are ones which have died, but the > kernel is keeping them around in case their parent cares about it's > return value. AFAIK, it'll hang around, consuming no CPU time but some > amount of swap, until you reboot.

Re: [kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:23, Rupert wrote: > > > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > > > > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > > > > > > > sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms > > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > > > sakura:~$

Re: [kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Rupert
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 13:10:14 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote.. > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you

[kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
--- Begin Message --- On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote.. > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > > any process, but I've run into one that just w

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > ko