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

[Helge Hafting]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:30:47PM +0000, Pedro Venda (SYSADM) wrote:
> Jim Nelson wrote:
> >DervishD wrote:
> 
> the exact same happened to me, but my case was with ntfs. zip processes 
> just got stuch in "D" state because of some unhandled names... i 
> couldn't kill the processes. i don't think this is an easy thing to do, 
> tough it should be possible to kill -9 these processes and make them exit.
> 
> is this feasible?
> 
The correct approach here is to fix ntfs so it doesn't make processes
wait forever for anything.  There is no need for a workaround.

Helge Hafting
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