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

[Mike McLean]

Is the process a zombie (defunct)?  If so, you will probably need to 
kill it's parent.  You may find a command like
%ps -A -o pid,user,cmd --forest
to be helpful in tracing the lineage.


Geoff Purdy 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.
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