kill -9 doesnot work

[Brian Chadwick]

gb spam wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi ALL
>>
>> kill -9 doesnot work
>>
>
> Its probably stuck in a system call and is waiting for the kernel to
> complete an operation.  This is often because of a remote file system
> that is misbehaving/down and the kernel is waiting for a response it
> is never going to get.  if you run df and that hangs, its definately a
> remote file system.  cat /etc/mtab to see which file system it is
> (usually the next fs after the last one df displayed).
>
i have found this behaviour myself ... and not using remote file systems 
... some things do just ... it seems ... die ... and the kernel cant rid 
itself of them ... win4lin modules are a classic case of this ...