From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:48:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640610301848o29169fa1mf797531bbc9e7e8d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162220472.12354.70.camel@camille.espersunited.com>
On 10/30/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> 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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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-30 15:01 [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die! Michael Sullivan
2006-10-30 15:13 ` fire-eyes
2006-10-30 15:30 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-30 23:35 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-31 0:34 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-31 2:33 ` Henk Boom
2006-10-31 2:48 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-10-31 7:33 ` Greg Bur
2006-11-03 4:44 ` Walter Dnes
2006-11-03 7:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-11-03 18:39 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-03 19:02 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-11-03 19:28 ` Petr Uzel
2006-10-31 7:36 ` Martins Steinbergs
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