Re: Communicator crash; kill -9 won't remove (pre-10!)
Evan Jeffrey (ejeffrey@utrek.ml.org)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:23:47 -0500
>> > kernel is hanging and why, as well as if there should be something done in
>
>> > the kernel to help fix the problem (depends on if it's a netscape bug or a
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>> > kernel bug).
>>
>> A process unable to be killed by kill -9 is a kernel problem - always
>>
>
>... unless it is in a "D" state in which case it may also be a disk
>hardware problem.
Shouldn't the disk controllers either A) time out and retry/fail or B)
Trigger a VFS panic/remount ro/whatever?
Evan Jeffrey
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