On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:00:38PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > On 5/31/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may argue whether "kill -9" is a good idea or not. Try killing > > processes that hog system resources and see if you get further access to > > the resources. Your system will become unstable. > > Which resources are you talking about?
Processes that access interfaces, removable drives, network interface cards. Not sure about network ressources that Pylons/Paste uses. Although if you are not lucky and kill such processes hard you may end up having these resources be blocked until reboot. Speaking of practice when some brutal coworkers were on a killing spree again. I have witnessed that in Solaris and Linux multiple times already. > The OS will close files and free memory if a process is murdered. If it's just files and memory then there will be no problem. And I agree that in most cases it's no problem. > Some device drivers may get in a snit if they're abandoned, but few > Pylons programs access esoteric devices. True. That's why I wanted to put my statement about the evilness of -9 into perspective. Still I don't want other readers get the impression that "kill -9" is a universal problem solver. And that Debian should be guilty of suffering from a rare "processes get stuck" disability sounded very strange to me, too. Now I'll quit yabbing and you are all free to shoot your feet. ;) Christoph P.S.: Does voltron actually have a real name? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
