Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-08 Thread Shane G
On Thu, Apr 8th, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Ron Foster wrote: > The DBAs cancelled the DB2 thread. The SAP Administrators issued all the > commands thru > SAP to get rid of the process. They did not work. The process did not > go away. Then we tried a kill -9 and the process died. > > On the other two

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
848 cel: +55-51-9988-8177 fax: +55-51-2131-5875 ITN: 5 759-5848 T/L: 759-5848 f...@br.ibm.com From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/04/2010 12:02 Subject: Re: Unable to kill process Sent by:

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Shane, Based on your comment... We have opened up problems with Novell and SAP. So far this has happened on two of our Linux Guests. We crashed and booted one Monday night. We crashed and booted the other one Tuesday night. (On the off chance that it might help, last night I took a standalon

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
UX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/04/2010 12:02 Subject: Re: Unable to kill process Sent by:Linux on 390 Port Mark, > If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be >

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Fernando Gieseler
@br.ibm.com From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/04/2010 12:02 Subject: Re: Unable to kill process Sent by: Linux on 390 Port Mark, > If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be > cancelled. Thanks for the info. >

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
That is *UN*interruptible sleep. Programming error , pure and simple. And yes, it probably really is unkillable. Shane ... Ron wrote on 06/04/2010 08:41:15 AM: > I just had to #CP logoff on of our production SAP systems. It had a SAP > process on it with a process state of "D" interruptible s

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be cancelled. Thanks for the info. Did you have a problem with disks and/or nfs? (sap process needing to complete i/o?) We happen to have the problem on another SAP application server as I am typing this. I have

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Barton, We are not using VMRM on this system. So it could not be that sort of problem. Ron Barton Robinson wrote: Any chance VMRM was active and too storage away? Mark Perry wrote: Hi Ron, thats a support question if ever I heard one. Contact SAP/IBM. (Which of course will lead to a questi

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-05 Thread Barton Robinson
Any chance VMRM was active and too storage away? Mark Perry wrote: Hi Ron, thats a support question if ever I heard one. Contact SAP/IBM. (Which of course will lead to a question on maintenace levels of linux and sap.) If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-05 Thread Mark Perry
Hi Ron, thats a support question if ever I heard one. Contact SAP/IBM. (Which of course will lead to a question on maintenace levels of linux and sap.) If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be cancelled. Are you saying that shutdown didn't work either and that yo

Unable to kill process

2010-04-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, I just had to #CP logoff on of our production SAP systems. It had a SAP process on it with a process state of "D" interruptible sleep. The sap cancel options would not work. kill would not work. kill -9 would not work on it. Any ideas on how to avoid having to log off next time. Ron