On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 05:15, Gregory Gulik wrote:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME
CMD
1 D 0 11952 1 0 80 2 - 1341 wait_o ? 00:00:00 gtar
This process is blocked waiting for I/O, so I can't be killed until the
I/O request is completed. This is something usual for processes which
use NFS: when the remote NFS dies or stops responding, the client
program stays at D and can't be killed.