[Linux-cluster] dlm service is not stopping

[Patrick Caulfield]

Panigrahi, Santosh Kumar wrote:
> You are absolutely right. 
> 
> There are around 5 process starting name with dlm_* are running. I am
> also not able to kill these processes by (kill -9 pid). So each time, I
> am rebooting this node on facing this dlm problem. Please suggest me
> some other way to kill these processes.
>

You can't kill those processes, they are DLM kernel threads. You need to shut
down any 'real' processes that are using the DLM, then they will go away.

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Patrick

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