If the process is put to sleep in Interruptible state, it should respond to signals and should be killed by kill -9 Can you provide some more information on this. GD -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Learner Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:37 PM To: Linux Kernel Newbie Subject: Killing blocked processes Hi , How to kill processes hanging in a blocked state as shown below :- 100 D root 3810 1 0 78 0 - 355 end 06:51 ? 00:00:00 df The stack trace is as below :- df D C5AE9DA0 160 3810 1 4241 31874 (NOTLB) Call Trace: [<f89db2a4>] __rpc_execute [sunrpc] 0x204 (0xc5ae9d48) [<f89d7596>] rpc_call_setup_Rsmp_f8ecb729 [sunrpc] 0x46 (0xc5ae9d64) [<f89d7479>] rpc_call_sync_Rsmp_f3c0f1eb [sunrpc] 0x69 (0xc5ae9d70) [<f89d748a>] rpc_call_sync_Rsmp_f3c0f1eb [sunrpc] 0x7a (0xc5ae9d90) [<f89d7680>] call_reserveresult [sunrpc] 0x0 (0xc5ae9de4) [<f89da410>] rpc_run_timer [sunrpc] 0x0 (0xc5ae9e04) [<f89fa019>] nfs3_proc_statfs [nfs] 0x59 (0xc5ae9e40) [<f89eda97>] nfs_statfs [nfs] 0x37 (0xc5ae9e90) [<c0144759>] vfs_statfs [kernel] 0x59 (0xc5ae9f2c) [<c01447cb>] sys_statfs [kernel] 0x3b (0xc5ae9f44) [<c01073e3>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc5ae9fc0) Even a kill -9 as root does not eliminate these processes . Also the stack trace shows that it is not in "sleep_uninterruptible" . Any pointers would help . Regards _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
