[wplug] killing process that will not die

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Matthew Danish assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:18:51AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
| > so my advisor called me into his office this morning and asked me why
| > mozilla wouldn't die.  we tried:
| > 
| > kill -9 pid
| > killall mozilla-bin
| > 
| > which failed.  since the parent process was init, i thought killing parent
| > would be a bad idea. the process wasn't a zombie, at least according to
| > top, so i don't really know our attempts to kill the processes failed. can
| > anyone else provide some information?
| 
| Was it in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state?  In a ps ax listing, under STAT,
| is the process listed in the 'D' state?
| 
| If so, it may be a kernel bug.  Which kernel are you running?

i don't know about the state as i mentioned to alexandros. the kernel is
2.4.18-14 under redhat 8.

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