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On 10/30/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 10/30/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really |
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> > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and |
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> > kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: |
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> > 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11 javadoc |
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> The only case that kill -9 doesn't work is if the process is locked up |
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> in a kernel call. What is this process doing...accesing network files |
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> per chance? |
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> > I have Cntrl+C on the emerge (five minutes ago) and I've issued multiple |
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> > killall javadocs and kill -9 24135 and still it runs. Is there a way of |
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> > getting rid of this process short of rebooting the machine? |
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> If -9 doesn't work, it means your kernel is hungup, and yeah, you'll |
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> have to reboot to fix. |
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> -Richard |
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I seem to remember seeing a utility called zkill at packetstorm once |
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that was intended to kill "zombie" processes. I'm not sure if this is |
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what you are encountering but you might want to give it a look. It |
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should be noted that zkill is one of those YMMV use-at-your-own-risk |
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type utilities and I'm not even sure if it will work with recent |
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kernels but it might be worth taking a look at. |
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