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From: "Greg Bur" <greg.bur@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:33:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <976cb44f0610302333w30e4120sa61410df4669581c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610301848o29169fa1mf797531bbc9e7e8d@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/30/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> 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
> --

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.
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31  7:38 UTC|newest]

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
2006-10-31  7:33   ` Greg Bur [this message]
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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