killing a stuck "D" process
Gaspar Bakos
gbakos at cfa.harvard.edu
Fri Jul 29 00:08:14 UTC 2005
Hi,
We are trying to kill a process that is "stuck", and we have found no
way to kill it yet.
We tried kill with many signals, including 'kill -9', and also removing
forcedly the 'st' module on which this nasty tar is running.
Any ideas?
------
21586 ? D 0:14 tar tvf /dev/nst0
------
cat /proc/21586/status
Name: tar
State: D (disk sleep)
SleepAVG: 78%
Tgid: 21586
Pid: 21586
PPid: 1
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
FDSize: 256
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10
VmSize: 41376 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 508 kB
VmData: 164 kB
VmStk: 88 kB
VmExe: 168 kB
VmLib: 1272 kB
VmPTE: 32 kB
Threads: 1
SigQ: 6/27775
SigPnd: 0000000000040100
ShdPnd: 0000000000044107
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000000000
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
Cpus_allowed: 3
Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000003
Cheers
Gaspar
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