On 10/30/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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I seem to remember seeing a utility called zkill at packetstorm once
that was intended to kill "zombie" processes. I'm not sure if this is
what you are encountering but you might want to give it a look. It
should be noted that zkill is one of those YMMV use-at-your-own-risk
type utilities and I'm not even sure if it will work with recent
kernels but it might be worth taking a look at.
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