[TriLUG] killing a process when 'kill -9' doesn't?

[M. Mueller]

On Friday 24 May 2002 12:01 pm, Geoff Purdy reputedly wrote:
> Is there a means of killing a runaway process which doesn't
> respond to 'kill -9'?  Is there a better way than 'reboot'?  I'm running
> kernel 2.4.18.

that's happened to me

are you root when you kill it?

try "ps -axj"

identify your process; see which process owns it (PPID); kill the owner; you 
may need to go up the chain of ownership;
proceed with caution if this is a production system, otherwise, have fun :-)

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Mike Mueller
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