Can't kill hung remote CP copy

[Hal]

On 4/14/2012 11:15 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Hal,
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 16:54, Hal<hal at faams.net>  wrote:
>> On 4/14/2012 8:08 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 21:09, Andrew Gray<andrewg at linnetsol.co.uk>
>>>   wrote:
>>>> Again how do you kill a  cp in UNINTERRUPTIBLE SLEEP !!!
>>> I'll repeat myself: "The only way to get rid of these processes is to
>>> wait or reboot."
>>>
>> Pardon my stupidity, if you can observe ot determine the process number for
>> the cp operation it appears one could use 'kill' and one of its options to
>> remove the process.
> And I will repeat myself again: You _cannot_ kill a process in
> uninterruptible sleep. Only way to get rid of this is to wait for it to
> finish, or reboot the system. If you could interrupt it (sending SIGKILL
> is a type of interruption), it wouldn't be called uninterruptible sleep
> would it?
>
> Some reference:
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223644/what-is-an-uninterruptable-process>
>
FINE..then REBOOT the darn thing and quit wasting time ..!!