Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 14:42:56 EST


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:26:23 EST, Gene Heskett said:

> Well, since the "device", a bt878 based Haupagge tv card is sitting in
> a pci socket, thats even more drastic than a reboot.

Not if you have a good hot-swap PCI cage. ;)

Anyhow, that points even more at a driver issue for the bt878 -
if you can get Sysrq-T output, where does it say the hung process is
inside the kernel?

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