Unkillable processes?

[Neil Schelly]

On Friday 17 February 2006 01:58 pm, Dan Coutu wrote:
> Okay, here's a strange one.
>
> On a Red Hat 9 system I've encountered a situation where there are two
> processes that I cannot kill when using kill -9 (or any other value, for
> that matter.)
The processes could be in an IO Lock, maybe trying to access an NFS share with 
hard locking and not INTR option set?

> Just to add more confusion to the mix, or maybe a useful clue, the
> system load average is about 4 but top shows 97% system idle time. Strange.
That's suspicious, but I suppose not entirely impossible.  Have you done 
anything like chkrootkit on it, just for kicks?
-Neil