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I know ths D status processes is uninterruptable sleep processes.

Many people say to kill D status processes is to reboot the system. But how does reboot operation can kill the D status processes?

I find "init 0" will "kill -9 " all of the processes at last. But "kill -9 " can not kill D status process.

Someone tell me how?

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It does not kill them at all. Those processes in D state will not respond to any signal. kill generates signals -- they cannot be delivered to these processes. So, no kill.

The loss of process context when the kernel stops running allows nothing to persist, processes are kernel objects. The state D processes become history at that point.

If you see this often it usually means some kind of hardware problem, like a cdrom/DVD device. The D state means the process is blocking on some uninterruptable operation on a device.

This is a good question!

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  • Thanks for you answer! When the kernel stops running, all of the resource is released, include the processes! – user3064136 Dec 04 '13 at 06:08
  • +1 , for the answer. I had the same question, and I thought that the answer might be something like "When we send SIGKILL to D state Process, Kernel blocks it , so that process will not get the signal. While rebooting, Kernel sends SIGKILL to all processes and D state process also terminates." Now you have given an alternate answer. Any reference for this will be very useful. – Prem Jul 30 '15 at 15:04
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I use the yum update command to kill the D state process.

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