18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
16:13
On Sunday 18 April 2004 18:03, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2004 17:39, Hans du Plooy wrote:
I'd still like to know how to kill a process that normally resists kill -9
You can't. Sending SIGKILL to a process is the most violent method at your disposal.
Check that, there is one other option that I discovered while having problems with X, if you have a process that is not in state 'D' but still won't respond to SIGKILL. I had an X server that would at times go mad at 100% CPU. kill -9 would hang the entire machine hard, forcing me to hit the power switch. However, kill -STOP on the process worked, and after it was suspended, kill -9 worked.