On 10/30/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really
frustrating.  I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and
kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch.  For instance, this is taken from top:

24135 root      16   0  229m  35m 1064 S  0.3 59.7   8:52.11 javadoc

The only case that kill -9 doesn't work is if the process is locked up
in a kernel call.  What is this process doing...accesing network files
per chance?

I have Cntrl+C on the emerge (five minutes ago) and I've issued multiple
killall javadocs and kill -9 24135 and still it runs.  Is there a way of
getting rid of this process short of rebooting the machine?

If -9 doesn't work, it means your kernel is hungup, and yeah, you'll
have to reboot to fix.

-Richard
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