Try to renice the process with a negative figure and then attempt to kill? ----------------------- Khushil Dep -----Original Message----- From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of urgrue Sent: 01 February 2006 10:57 To: dermot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Run away process welcome to the wonderful world of NFS. how about you reconnect the windows just long enough for NFS to recover so you can kill the process, then detach it again? other than that, you should look into the various NFS mount options. the default settings in most systems are absurd. i recommend you look into at least: soft,intr,bg,nfsvers=3,tcp,timeo=30. these wont help you with your immediate problem, but may help prevent similar problems in the future. > Hi, > > I have a problem this morning. > > I created a perl script to make a backup copy of some files. The > destination was a remote server (win2k) using a NFS mount. The win2k > server has fallen over during the process and I can't terminate the > backup script that was run via cron. > > If I df, my terminal freezes. lsof never returns. kill -9 doesn't do > anything and I tried to kill -9 the parent, crond. The parent is now > inetd. It doesn't show in ipcs -a. > > I can't do a reboot the linux box until much later tonight when > everyone is off and I can't put the windows box on the network as it > will fall over again if the above process is still running. > > Does anyone know how I can stop this process? > Thanx. > Dp. > > > ...ps -ef > root 12684 1657 0 02:19 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D > root 14351 1 0 03:28 ? 00:00:07 /usr/bin/perl > /root/dbbackup.pl > root 14354 15 0 03:28 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush] > ... > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
