On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Kevin Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to kill the process which went to uninterruptible sleep (D) > state due of some reason without rebooting machine??
Short answer: no. Longer answer: D state is used when the process suspends waiting for an event which "has to" occur, typically something like a completion interrupt from a device (hence the 'D'). When the completion event doesn't occur, there's no way for the kernel to clean up. Reboot is the only thing you can do. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1475683/linux-process-states and lots of other places (Google for 'D state'). poc -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
