kill -9 doesnot work

[Matthew Miller]

> On 8/3/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> >> in nfs mounted partition tnfs-dev.test.example.com:/config 140G  135G
> >> 5.1G  97% /config where my process is looking for some files.
> >> Is there a way to fix it?
> >Mount the nfs partition so that it's interruptible.
> Its mounted in /etc/mtab

mtab just shows what partitions are mounted; it's not where it's mounted
*from*. To be able to kill things that are timing out in NFS, you want to
either mount the filesystem 'soft' or 'intr'.

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