[plug] unkillable proces

[Shayne O'Neill]

I tend to find "whowatch" quite useful for this sort of thing as well. Its
got a nice interactive curses user interface.


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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Senectus . wrote:

> 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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