26 Oct
2003
26 Oct
'03
8:57 p.m.
Not much left to add :)
On 2003-10-26 18:00:48 +0000 Steve Fosdick lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk wrote:
-KILL' or 'kill -9'. Only use SIGKILL if a normal kill fails as it doesn't give the application any chance to tidy up like deleting temp files, message queues or shared memory.
I normally use -3 or -QUIT in between a TERM and KILL. Is there any justification for doing so, or am I just repeating old Unix folklore?
"uninterruptible sleep" which shows in the 'S' column of ps -l as 'D'. Normally this means it is waiting for disk I/O to comeplete but can be
I think that you can run lsof (LiSt Open Files) with the right options to find out what files the process is using, but sometimes that locks up if a filesystem has gone really bad.
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