On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:29:03PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
Have seen the same -- httpd hung when coming up -- I guess
something was misconfigured. It was on a lab machine, so didn't
care so much, but kill -9 on the <pid> had no effect. I think it
was waiting on WCHAN 'down'.
Weird.
On a server that has gone mad, kill -9 may not appear to work
instantly if there are many pages swapped out.
If there isn't swapping and a process is stuck in down, then
something has deadlocked and needs to be fixed.
--cw
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