Trying to kill a process that just won't die...

[David Jackson]

> Gregory Gulik wrote:
>
>>
>> F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR    SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
>> 1 D     0 11952     1  0  80   2    -  1341 wait_o ?        00:00:00
>> gtar
>
> That's what I suspected - the app is in an I/O wait (technically,
> "uninterruptible sleep").  Usually this is due to an NFS hang, although
> it can be caused by other media which has wedged but not timed out.  One
> trick which sometimes works is to unmount the mount point it's stuck
> on.. if that doesn't work you're pretty much stuck.
Are you running a script that kicks off more than one backup operation?
Such as one for each file system?

In that case you need to kill the parent process first. Otherwise the
parent will just kick off the next child process in line.

David