[Gllug] How to kill a rogue process

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Thu Nov 14 16:58:52 UTC 2002


Mick Farmer writes:

>If it's waiting for I/O, then you can't kill it, even with
>kill -9.  The only solution is to restart your machine.

But that's the point. It's *not* in an uninterruptable state.
Both top and ps show it to be runnable, and hence it should
be killable with a SIGKILL.

Tet

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