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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:43:04
Message-Id: 1162251305.31044.57.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die! by Michael Sullivan
1 On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really
3 > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and
4 > kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top:
5 >
6 > 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11 javadoc
7 >
8 > I have Cntrl+C on the emerge (five minutes ago) and I've issued multiple
9 > killall javadocs and kill -9 24135 and still it runs. Is there a way of
10 > getting rid of this process short of rebooting the machine?
11
12 I assume you did kill and killall as root?
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14 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
15
16 It's the thought, if any, that counts!
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