On 8/2/06, Rodolfo Alcazar <rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:08 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi ALL > > kill -9 doesnot work Yep. Does not always work. AFAIK, mostly happens when the kernel expects for a hardware signal. There are some other causes, also. Try finding the problem, instead of killing it!
indeed. strace on the process will tell you the last kernel function called and may give clues as to where the problem lies.