From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GegmW-0002Eb-Dd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:43:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UNdGJx021270; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:39:16 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UNZEIB012801 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:35:15 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27654C3D7 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:35:13 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die! From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1162220472.12354.70.camel@camille.espersunited.com> References: <1162220472.12354.70.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:05:05 +0930 Message-Id: <1162251305.31044.57.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9d4bd4dc-d9e1-4deb-b3f0-0c540a92580d X-Archives-Hash: 200468c0d082f13fd508704e2578982b On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan 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 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 > > 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? I assume you did kill and killall as root? -- Iain Buchanan It's the thought, if any, that counts! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list