Re: kill task in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE

Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
08 May 2002 09:51:34 -0700


Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> writes:

> On 8 May 2002 12:01, Amol Lad wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there any way i can kill a task in
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state ?
>
> No. Everytime you see hung task in this state
> you see kernel bug.
>
> Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

Except for processes accessing NFS files while the NFS server is down:
they will be stuck in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE until the NFS server comes
back up again.

Phil.
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