kill -9 doesnot work

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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).