Re: diehard processes

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

kill -9 <pid>

(man kill) The "-9" says to send a signal 9 which is called SIGKILL, and
is most ruthless, as opposed to the gentler (-15) SIGTERM.

See also "man killall" for a more specialized utility.

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:24:33PM +0200, 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.
> 
> Greetings,
> Sebastiaan

Cheers,
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