On 09/06/2015 10:07 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 09/06/15 21:55, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I was copying some files to a newly set up USB HD, and then did some umounts 
when done.  Well they are still running, and

kill pid

is not killing them and they are taking up most of my cpu.

I have never seen 'kill' fail.

What can I do other than reboot?
Well, a kill will fail to kill if the process is a zombie or in an  
uninterruptable state.  If top doesn't show any zombies then the process is 
probably uninterruptable and I think this shows up as a D state in top.

Tasks: 217 total,   5 running, 212 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 12.4 us, 84.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 3.5 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem :  3636504 total,    34804 free,  2810220 used, 791480 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  8388604 total,  6408640 free,  1979964 used. 710384 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 2197 root      20   0  125148   1840   1616 R  79.9  0.1 19:24.07 umount
 2200 root      20   0  125148   1904   1680 R  78.2  0.1 19:44.46 umount
 8705 rgm       20   0 2743540 579296  41008 S  13.5 15.9 4245:23 firefox

And the terminal window this is from, is in as su.


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