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

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 15:15:01 EST


On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:33, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>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?

Thats another thing I've had compiled in since forever, but it so
seldom actually *works*, I've tended to forget about it.

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Cheers, gene
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