Trying to kill a process that just won't die...

Tue Jan 20 07:51:18 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 05:15, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR    SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
> 1 D     0 11952     1  0  80   2    -  1341 wait_o ?        00:00:00 gtar

This process is blocked waiting for I/O, so I can't be killed until the
I/O request is completed. This is something usual for processes which
use NFS: when the remote NFS dies or stops responding, the client
program stays at D and can't be killed.