Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Robert Brockway writes: >On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, François TOURDE wrote: >> The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot >> at this point, because nothing is wrong. >Right. I can't see how the OP's process is a zombie as a zombie won't >consume CPU (or any other resou

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, François TOURDE wrote: The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot at this point, because nothing is wrong. Right. I can't see how the OP's process is a zombie as a zombie won't consume CPU (or any other resource). It exists solely to hand b

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:03:19 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: >>> Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 >>> >>> But OP said he tried that and it did not help. >>> >>> >> Try to kill the parent process. If it

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is not a problem. Sjoerd

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ice

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
> > xkill is your friend. or kill -9

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14934ième jour après Epoch, Dotan Cohen écrivait: > If it's running in a shell, then I agree that it is no bother (doesn't > use any memory or CPU). However, if it is a GUI app who's window is > still stuck on the screen, then something ought to be done to get rid > of that window! xkill is yo

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 15:08, François TOURDE wrote: > What??? Why killall or reboot? > > The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot > at this point, because nothing is wrong. > If it's running in a shell, then I agree that it is no bother (doesn't use any memory or

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14934ième jour après Epoch, Dotan Cohen écrivait: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:58, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: >>  It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process >> > > Eduardo's right, it's a zombie. I didn't look at the output that was > in the screenshot, but now that

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:58, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >  It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > Eduardo's right, it's a zombie. I didn't look at the output that was in the screenshot, but now that I did I see the Z in the stats column. Killall -9 or reboot at th

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process -- Old timer, n.: One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Not really an answer, but I disliked transmission. I've had far better luck with qbittorrent Just a thought TeddyB -Original Message- From: Dotan Cohen Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:50:13 To: Arthur Bela Cc: Debian User Mailing list Subject: Re: how to kill a process that is &qu

how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Arthur Bela
I tried to: kill -9 3341 but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\ I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just freezez I tried to log out, and log in, when i log back, it's still there :O only when

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:17, Arthur Bela wrote: > I tried to: > > kill -9 3341 > > but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\ > > I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a > couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just > freezez > > I tried to

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2010 11:17:47 je Arthur Bela napisal(a): I found out that the gnome-system-monitor would kill any processes I otherwise don't know how to kill. Since gnome-system-monitor can do it, I guess it can be done with "kill" or "top" too, you probably just have to try hard enough. --