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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:43:43
Message-Id: 1162254897.12587.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die! by Iain Buchanan
1 On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:05 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really
4 > > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and
5 > > kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top:
6 > >
7 > > 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11 javadoc
8 > >
9 > > I have Cntrl+C on the emerge (five minutes ago) and I've issued multiple
10 > > killall javadocs and kill -9 24135 and still it runs. Is there a way of
11 > > getting rid of this process short of rebooting the machine?
12 >
13 > I assume you did kill and killall as root?
14 > --
15 > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
16 >
17 > It's the thought, if any, that counts!
18 >
19
20 Yes. I always do kill and killall with root.
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