Re: [TCLUG:7184] Process killing

[JellyD <jellyd@jellyd.org>]

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, JellyD wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 schewe@tcfreenet.org wrote:
> 
> > > How do I kill a process that's in an IO wait state ?
> > 
> > reboot.
> 
> That's not the answer I was looking for, of course :P

Well, I finally got to the console of the afflicted machine,
only to find

erie login: wait_queue is bad (eip = 00126f00)
        q = 002d4fd0
       *q = 00513eb4
general protection: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<0011d2c0>]
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: f000ef6f   ebx: 00513eb4   ecx: 002f4fcc   edx: f000ef6f
esi: 00000246   edi: 00513eb4   ebp: 00000001   esp: 00513ea0
ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
Process crond (pid: 5903, process nr: 31, stackpage=00513000)
Stack: 03c9c000 00001900 002d4fb0 03ad7414 00000000 03ad7414 002f4fcc 0012089c
       002d4fb0 03c9c000 03ad7414 00001900 03ff8298 0804df88 002d4fb0 001f3b18
       00000019 00000293 00512400 03ad7414 00001900 03ff8298 001e0998 00000001
Call Trace: [<0012089c>] [<0012114b>] [<0011ac1b>] [<0011b2ab>] [<0011b028>] [<0011d8ac>] [<00111c20>]
       [<00111aec>] [<0011bbef>] [<0010ab60>]
Code: 8b 42 04 39 d8 74 05 89 c2 eb f5 90 89 4a 04 56 9d a1 08 1b

waiting for me.


I guess I'll be rebooting.



3:04pm  up 109 days, 22:19,  3 users,  load average: 315.00, 315.00, 315.00
  
[sigh]

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