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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: Seb on February 11, 2006, 08:51:47 am

Title: Kill -s Sigkill On Borzoi,kathrin-1.1.0beta1-akita
Post by: Seb on February 11, 2006, 08:51:47 am

i've found nothing on this topic so far

so what's happened?

i mounted nfs via mount -t nfs -o nolock <host:path> <mountpoint>
and started downloading a file (1 mb) on zaurus via cp

the downloaded file stopped getting bigger, and ctrl-c on aterm had no effect

i started xterm and killed aterm via xkill

ps -a yields the cp-process with process id 1226 but kill 1226, kill -9 1226 and kill -s sigkill 1226 do NOT work, what i mean by "not work" is, they are still visible via ps -a

anyone observed similar problems?
is this maybe a new bug?

the problem remains after logging out from x

regards,
seb


AMENDMENT: after some 30 minutes the process disappeared finally from ps -a

Title: Kill -s Sigkill On Borzoi,kathrin-1.1.0beta1-akita
Post by: dlj0 on March 11, 2006, 06:51:34 pm

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ps -a yields the cp-process with process id 1226 but kill 1226, kill -9 1226 and kill -s sigkill 1226 do NOT work, what i mean by "not work" is, they are still visible via ps -a

anyone observed similar problems?
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I have used kill -15 and kill -9 several times with no problem.  But from the sound of it your process was a zombie when you tried to kill it, and in general zombies are hard to kill in linux.

Title: Kill -s Sigkill On Borzoi,kathrin-1.1.0beta1-akita
Post by: karlto on March 12, 2006, 02:25:32 pm

From my experience, NFS mounts on any version of Linux are good candidates for creating zombie processes...

Title: Kill -s Sigkill On Borzoi,kathrin-1.1.0beta1-akita
Post by: Seb on March 12, 2006, 05:58:26 pm

they disappear after a while, sometimes it takes even 15 minutes or something like that.. i think it's still strange but i got used to it..