[Gllug] Killing processes on Solaris [OTish]

[Vincent AE Scott]

Ian Scott(ian.scott at mediasurface.com)@Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:00:37AM +0000:
> This is a bit OT, but I wonder if anyone can help me with it.
> 
> I had a perl process running on a Solaris box which refuses to die
> (kill -9 as root doesn't moan, but the process lives on).
> 
> ps shows it as sleeping.
> 
> The IT blokes here say the only way is to reboot the box, but
> I don't like that as an answer to a unix problem - you expect it
> with Windoze, but unix can usually do things properly.
> 
> The perl script I'm running does shell out to call system commands
> - I don't know whether the problem could have occured when it was doing
> that - but I have no other processes running.
> 
> Any thoughts?


just an idea, but i wonder if it'd be possible to adb the kernel, and
remove the process from the proc list.  i'd guess that none of the
resources being used would be freed, and lots of other bad things might
happen.

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