Are you using kill -9 <pid> to kill it?
David Merrill wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my
> connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually,
> or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using
> "kill", or with top. It seems to be because the process no long has a
> pts associated with it.
>
> Is there any other way to reliably kill such a process and free its
> resources? It's not a huge problem, but after I've accumulated a dozen
> or so of these, it bugs me.
>
> tia,
>
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