[plug] unkillable proces

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On 7/31/05, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
you need to kill it's parent..
do a "pstree" to see what the parent is..
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