Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot?

[Terje Eggestad]

fre, 2001-10-12 kl. 08:16 skrev Paul Mackerras:
    Christopher Friesen writes:
    
    > Well, the unkillable process continues on.  Does nobody else have any ideas on
    > how to kill an unkillable process in the R state thats sucking up all my unused
    > cpu cycles?
    
    I would suspect that it is actually looping inside the kernel, which
    would mean that there indeed was no way to kill it.  You could try
    alt-scrolllock on the console and see if you get a register dump of
    it, or maybe one of the alt-sysrq magic keys might give you some
    information.  But I suspect that rebooting is ultimately going to be
    your only solution.
    
You might find out if it's looping inside the kernel by doing strace -p
<pid>, if you're stuck in a syscall, I *belive* strace'll tell you.

You wouldn't by any chance be developing a kernel module??

    Paul.
    
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