On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 00:13 -0500, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > [root@server root]# ps auxw|grep DW > root 27576 0.0 0.0 6020 0 ? DW Aug07 0:00 [sendmail] > > > Trying to do the usual kill -9 27576 fails, and searching for this doesn't > turn up much concrete yet, except an old Sun users list archive from the > early 1990s which says: D = uninterruptable sleep; W = paging (but not in 2.6 though) Looks like sendmail is waiting for some IO of some sort (which is weird) Disk(s) where sendmail is writing to could be wonky, possibly? -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi