Unkillable processes?

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Fri Feb 17 14:47:01 EST 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:35:15PM -0500, Neil Schelly wrote:
> 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?

IO locks will cause the load to be high with a low idle time.

-Mark
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