Unable to kill smb process

[Robert Meyer]

This is the one failing of NFS.  If you lose connectivity to a filesystem, the
processes tend to just hang.  We had a discussion on this a while ago.  If the
filesystem is hard mounted, without the 'intr' flag, you cannot interrupt a
process once it has posted an I/O.  So the kill -9 won't make it go away
because it still has a kernel mode I/O hanging out there.

Do a 'man mount' to find out all of the options.  You might be interested in
the 'soft' and 'intr' flags.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> I have a SMB process that I can't kill, It was running against a NFS 
> filesystem, and lost the nfs connection. It has a lock on a file so the 
> users can't open the file again, I can't kill it with a kill -9. Any 
> ideas? I may just have to reboot the box at lunch.
> 
> Justin
> 
> -- 
> Justin Bennett
> Network Administrator
> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
> Dynabrade, Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
> Clarence, NY 14031
>  
> 


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