[X-Unix] PS and Stuck Processes

[Alex]

On Thursday, Mar 4, 2004, at 17:54 Canada/Eastern, Gretchen Hayman 
wrote:

> The state field of U means the thread is set to the state 
> TH_STATE_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (i.e. the thread is in an uninterruptible 
> wait).  Top translates this to a stuck process.

Thanks, Gretchen. A searched for TH_STATE_UNINTERRUPTIBLE resulted in a 
some interesting reads, relevant also to the thread on killing a stuck 
process.

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