Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/04/04

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Date:	Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:39:01 -0500

    On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:12, Jan Knutar wrote:
    >On Thursday 04 November 2004 13:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
    >> I'e had that turned on since forever Jan, but usually, when its
    >> hung someplace, its well and truely hung, and hardware reset
    >> button time.
    >
    >Are you saying that these zombies (or tasks stuck in state D) also
    > make sysrq-T hang, and not list all tasks?

    I thought I'd test it right now while the system is runnng normally,
    but I got only a beep from the console, so I went to
    Documentation/sysrq.txt to make sure I was doing it right, and it is
    _not_ working right now. But it is compiled in according to a make
    xconfig, or a grep of the .config.

    [root@coyote linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk13]# grep SYSRQ .config
    CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

    I get a couple of beeps from the console, but thats the limit of the
    response, and a tail -f on the log shows nothing. I also logged into
    VC2, and tried it there, but that attempt didn't even get me a beep,
    several times.

    The keyboard is a cheap ($24) M$ with a few extra buttons that don't
    do anything along the top. And getting a bit creaky in its old age,
    a lot like me, but I'm about 68 years older than the keyboard :) 

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