-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 8:25 am, Shane Hickey wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:05:58 +0000 (DST)
>
> Simon Mushi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just wanted to ask what to do if a process refuses to die. For
> > example I want to kill dctc with a pid of 16371. So I type in "kill
> > 16371" and I can do this continually and the process refuses to die
> > and still shows up in top.
> >
> > What can I do to kill it for real?
>
> Try a kill -9. The normal kill tries to play nice, but it doesn't
> always get the job done. If kill -9 doesn't do the trick, then you
> might need to reboot. For example when I have an nfs mount go sour or a
> usb drive's action get hung up then sometimes a kill -9 won't take care
> of it. At that point, I just reboot... maybe there's a better way,
> though.
kill -9 pid does normally work, if however it doesnt then the process is
probably a zombie. In which case, do a pstree and kill the parent process.
This extra step has fixed the problem for me on every occasion so far.
- --
Mark
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE/KNsEzrmqzOOQUj8RAhAoAKCdym1jKQyolHo7OfnLnOHH5hhcYQCfcx48
nYkb0b2tloqBaA+Rq2bdeJs=
=acu8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
