[plug] unkillable proces

[Timothy White]

On 7/31/05, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I have an unkillable process using all spare cpu cycles.  It just shrugs
> off kill -9 ...
> 
> The original shell has exited, and the parent process has gone as well -
> but still shows the pid on ps aux.
> 
> Is there anyway to kill it or is it reboot?  Its not a drama except some
> long running jobs (weeks) are running at -19 and are not getting a look
> in.

Can you renice it? And yes, if you find a way to kill zombies, I'd
love to know. I've had problems with Gaim zombing it's self while
spawning lots of sub processes. Somewhat related to a sound card issue
I think.

Tim