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From:	Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:10:04
Message-Id:	`438CA596.6070208@gonoph.net`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] unkillable processes by Mark Knecht

1	Mark Knecht wrote:
2	> kill -15 PID
3	> kill -9 PID
4	> killall -9 process_name
5
6	see if you can perform a "top" and find the process that is hung.
7
8	if it has a state of "D", then you can't kill it. It's waiting for some
9	type of IO or for some hardware. This is typical of a hardware failure,
10	buggy driver, and sometimes weird things just happen if your computer
11	becomes too hot (not enough cooling).
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