[vox-tech] unkillable processes (was: ac97 sound problems)

[Henry House]

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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:05:43AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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> as you point out, processes in "uninterruptable sleep" can't be killed
> with SIGKILL.  the process is put to sleep while the kernel waits for
> some event to happen.  this corresponds to process status "D".
>=20
> as you point out, it can be kernel bug.  often a race condition.
> but it can also be caused by hardware failure.

I have seen such unkillable processes crop up on NFS clients, in cases of
server failure.

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