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

[Elladan]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:10:35PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> Elladan <elladan@xxxxxxxxxx> said on Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:50 -0800:
> > If a process is in D state and receives a SIGKILL, assume it must exit
> > within a few seconds or it's a bug, and dump as much information about
> > it as is practical...?
> 
> Of course, it's not necessarily a bug. Someone could have just kicked
> the ethernet, and so your process is stuck waiting for a read/write.

Sounds like a bug to me.  Kernel resource leak due to network activity?

-J
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