I believe that 'ps -elf' will give you the WCHAN field. I know it does on Solaris 8 and 9, but I don't have access to 6. If you need top you can get it from www.sunfreeware.com. Don't worry that it is listed as beta. It has been beta for as long as I can remember.
Where is the binary for this 'immortal' process? I have seen processes on Sun that are impossible to kill if they are running off of an NFS share and the share is no longer available. If you have NFS shares, make sure that they are all still alive. Good luck. Garl > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:55 PM > To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list > Subject: Re: [eug-lug]how to kill an immortal process | release a port > binding > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a process that cannot be killed by 'kill -9 PID' > > You're screwed. You're going to have to reboot. > > But before you do, there is some more info you can collect. > > First, is the process using CPU time? You don't have top, but you can > run ps twice several seconds apart and see whether the CPU time has > increased. > > Second, what is the process blocked on? I don't have access to a > Solaris system, but most Unices have a ps option that displays the > WCHAN field. The WCHAN is the address of a kernel data structure that > a process is blocked waiting on. Find out what the WCHAN is. Maybe > (probably not) you can find someone else who's holding the WCHAN and > kill that process instead. > > Try different ps options to find WCHAN. I think there is an alternate > ps program on Solaris in /usr/ucb/ps or somewhere, too. Try that too. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EuG-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
