Re: Processes that just won't die

[Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>]

"Michael Tang Helmeste" <glassfish@frogbox.dyndns.org> writes:

> Is there any way (besides rebooting) to kill processes that just don't seem
> to want to die?
> I don't believe the process has any child threads or processes, but its not
> responding to any type of kill signal:
> 
> sphere# ps auxww | grep ntp
> root     29295  0.0  0.0   344     0 p0  RV     4:15PM    0:00.00 grep ntp
> (csh)
> root     23233  0.0  0.3   592  1700 ??  Ds    Sun10AM    0:00.01
> /usr/bin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid

Can you try ps auxwl so we can seed what it's sleeping on?

This looks like a bug.

//art