On 09/06/15 22:11, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Tasks: 217 total, 5 running, 212 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 12.4 us, 84.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 3.5 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 3636504 total, 34804 free, 2810220 used, 791480 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 6408640 free, 1979964 used. 710384 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2197 root 20 0 125148 1840 1616 R 79.9 0.1 19:24.07 umount
2200 root 20 0 125148 1904 1680 R 78.2 0.1 19:44.46 umount
8705 rgm 20 0 2743540 579296 41008 S 13.5 15.9 4245:23 firefox
And the terminal window this is from, is in as su.
Well there are no zombie and "R" under "S" indicates it is running.
Not sure if you'd run into this situation if you issue an unmount prior to the
transfer being complete to the USB-HD. Either way, if you can't kill with a
"kill -9" then probably your only recourse is to reboot. And then don't
trust the data written to the drive.
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It seems most people that say they are "done talking about it" never really are
until given the last word.