Processes that won't die

[Warren Raquel]

Do a SIGTERM
kill -15 <process id>


Warren Raquel MCP CCNA

- Just another geek.



>From: E Frank Ball <frankb at efball.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Processes that won't die
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:59:28 -0800
>
>Yesterday I had hung processes on two machines that refused to die.
>Both are using RedHat 6.2.  Machine one had a couple of netscape
>processes left after netscape died.  Restarting netscape resulted in
>another hang and two more processes that wouldn't die.  The other was an
>application we use at work.  machine two (output of 'ps -ef | grep rmb'):
>
>yellowst  3556     1  2 Nov09 ?        01:07:24 rmb -title 
>YELLOWSTONE_SYSTEM_CO
>yellowst  3581  3556  0 Nov09 ?        00:00:01 [rmbkbdx <defunct>]
>yellowst  3582  3556  0 Nov09 ?        00:00:00 [rmbhil <defunct>]
>yellowst  3583  3556  0 Nov09 ?        00:00:00 [rmbtmr <defunct>]
>yellowst  3741  3556  0 Nov09 ?        00:00:10 [rmb_pipe.3556 <defunct>]
>
>The nescape processes looked similar.  The top level process had a PPID
>of 1 (init), the child processes were zombies.  kill -9 by either the
>process owner or root had no effect.  Both machines had to be rebooted.
>
>There must be a better way.  Any advice?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>
>    E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com
>    work: (707) 794-4168        home: (707) 538-3693


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