Re: diehard processes

[Ric Moore <rmoore redhat com>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Sebastiaan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> how can I kill processes which won't die with the normal termination
> signal (15). Some processes crash, and I can not kill them, but they keep
> eating processor and memory usage.

As root, type ps -ax, find the pid number of the process, then type: 
kill -9 <process id number> like: kill -9 121
it'll die, fer sure! Ric


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