Re: non-killable program - kernel problem?

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Hi!

> cleanup (part of postfix) is eating up most of CPU cycles and I cannot
> kill it (-9 is ignored) - I guess that means that the problem is
> somewhere in kernel (system call). Is it true? Is there anything I can
> do to kill it? to find out what the problem is?

Yep, that's a kernel bug. Power switch should kill it safely
;-). Magic keys may be able to show where it loops.
                                                                        Pavel

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