Re: [TCLUG:7184] Process killing

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting JellyD (jellyd@jellyd.org):
> How do I kill a process that's in an IO wait state ?
> 
> I've got about 300 '/usr/sbin/crond -l10' sitting at status D
> (which 'man ps' defines as "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)").
> 
> Doing kill -{KILL,STOP,HUP,TERM} on any of their pids is
> uneventful. 
> 
> The PPID of all of them is 1, which is abnormal.
> 
> The disks are at worst at 78% sector capacity and 20% inode
> capacity, so that's not it.
> 
> The only good side is that the uptime stats look kinda neat:
> jellyd@erie:~:> uptime
>   5:30pm  up 109 days, 45 min,  2 users,  load average: 315.05, 315.01, 314.56
> 
> There were a few hundred files in the /tmp directory that
> contained the output of the 'atrun' process's crontab entry
> (stock from install) that I removed, which didn't result in
> anything.
> 

# killall crond

Check to make sure crontabs.


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