RE: Processes that just won't die

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Shawn wrote:
> Yeah, try "kill -9 processID".

This was already tried as shown in his examples.

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Benninghoff, John wrote:
>  this is a zombie process, it's already dead. look for "zombie" in man ps.

The ps status does not indicate that it is a zombie. It is stuck in some
disk wait.

I think SIGKILL will not kill a process waiting on disk I/O. (Maybe the
kernel has some feature to work around this?)

>> Is there any way (besides rebooting) to kill processes that just don't seem
>> to want to die?

>> sphere# kill -9 23233 26086
>> sphere# ps auxww | grep ntp
>> root     23233  0.0  0.3   592  1700 ??  Ds    Sun10AM    0:00.01
>> /usr/bin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
>> root     26086  0.0  0.3   592  1700 ??  Ds    Sun08PM    0:00.00
>> /usr/bin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/