I generally resort to kill -9 <pid> when something hangs. There's also the init 1, init 5 sequence :)
WMM On 4/5/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > matt1027 wrote: > > Mandriva has been bogging down lately to the point of being unusable. > > top shows a program called mhonarc that is using 70% of memory. > > Google search shows it is some kind of program that generates html > > archives from various mail formats, which I have no idea where it came > > from or how it got going. When I do a kill 4465 (the pid) it just > > keeps going. > You could try kill -s KILL 4465 (sometimes the plain old kill command > doesn't really kill things...) Anybody have any elaborations on why > this works by the way? I've been using it for a while just because it > works, but don't really understand the differences between kill and kill > -s KILL. Thanks! > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- http://warrenmyers.com "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers." --Paul Erdős "It's not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our favor going against us." --Ben Jarhvi, Short Circuit 2
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