Re: diehard processes

[Sebastiaan <tw121164 elektron its tudelft nl>]

Thanks,

Sebastiaan


On Mon, 15 May 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> 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.
> 
> using the 9 signal should put a end to the offending programs once and
> for all.
> 
> if the program grep is taking up so much time and refuses to answeer to
> the 15 signal just try,
> 
> killall -9 grep
> 
> 
> But please be warned that this immediately terminates the program without
> giving it any chance of saving its data etc...
> 
> Grendel
> 
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