On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:35:46AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a process named artsd (sound daemon for KDE), which takes 99% of > the process time. But even worse, it refuses to get killed. > > I don't care very much if artsd is buggy. What bothers me more, is that > "kill -9" fails, which I think is a bit of a fundamental problem. Any > idea of what can make my favourite serial killer fail? > > I'm running RH7.3, with kernel 2.4.21 on a Pentium 4. > > Here's a short session: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps -A | grep artsd
ps -u would be nice. What is its state? You can't generally kill "D"-state processes. I think, BTW, that I also had such a scenario in the past (and not in state "D"), but I did not investigate it. Did you try other signals? STOP (19), if works, will free up your CPU. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
