Stubborn Processes

[stevenerat at yahoo.com (Steven Erat)]

> --- "Kevin D. Clark" <kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com> wrote:
> The process is probably hung waiting for something in kernel space,
> most likely in a buggy driver.  I've seen this occur with poorly
> written drivers for certain hardware...

That could be in this case.  They are using a third party ODBC Driver to
connect to SQLServer, and I believe the stuck threads are querying with
that driver... I'll confirm.

> Unfortunately, the only way to kill a process in this state is to
> reboot (and then fix the real problem).

This is what they have been doing.

Thanks very much.  This is helpful.

Steven Erat



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