So got stumped yesterday in my interview by a issue I have never seen
before and given the context of the issue and commands google isn't
returning very effective results.
As a "anyone know this" and a "this is good to know" I'm throwing
this out to the list.
Scenario:
0) solaris operating system
1) apache process is running away with your resources
2) it has been killed via "kill -9 pid"
3) there is still an apache process running but it never responded
to the "kill -9" command and it has not been gone zombie so it is
still using resources at an alarming rate.
Question: How do you kill this process?
My gut reaction would be there has got to be a something (connection,
file) which is allowing the process to ignore the "kill -9" command,
find what it is using or what is holding it open and get that process
to release. Then the unkillable process will be killed....
My second reaction is you might be stuck in a situation which there
is no other recourse but to reboot. That said there has got to be
something else that could be done in order to kill the process....
- Brian
