Re: [TCLUG:12038] killing a dead process

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is there anyway to kill a process that is dead and has the 'D' flag in ps?
> For example:
> 
> [root@www Zope]# ps ax | grep python
>  5495 ?        D      0:00 /usr/local/bin/python/usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.2-src/z
> 
From the ps manpage
  PROCESS STATE CODES
       D   uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
       R   runnable (on run queue)
       S   sleeping
       T   traced or stopped
       Z   a defunct ("zombie") process
kill -9 will kill processes, but since it's in IO you have to wait till
it wakes up.
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