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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:48:58 -0700
From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
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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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