Yes, actually I read up about the dangers of using kill -9, but what do you do when kill does not work as I mentioned? I found no other way to kill these renegade Paster server processes.
I also found out that these Zombies are caused when using the --reload switch, if something goes wrong, you´ll have 5 or 6 of em stacked, kill one process, the others are there, kill the others, check up the "killed" and surprisingly, they are "awake" again. On May 28, 8:24 am, "Shannon -jj Behrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:55:55PM -0700, voltron wrote: > > > one thing, just using kill <process number> on Linux, you would have > > > to use kill -9, maybe its the same on OSX > > > Better not. Sending the signal 9 (SIGKILL) is a very harsh way that may > > even lead to inconsistencies and make you need to reboot the system. > > Use a normal kill without any signal number and you should be fine. > > > I have many coworkers who are so used to blindly sending signals 9 > > around and wonder why their systems become instable. :) > > I remember reading this great rant somewhere about the harmfulness of > using kill -9. The post went so far as to say that if you actually > need to use kill -9, you should just uninstall the software because > it's garbage to begin with. Alas, I couldn't find it via a quick > google. > > Happy Hacking! > -jj > > --http://jjinux.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
