[Nottingham] Unkillable process?

[Charles Samuels]

Johannes Kling wrote, on Monday 2006 April 24 4:25 pm:
> Hello,
>
>   On one of our machines two processes have cropped up that appear to
> be completely unkillable; I was wondering if anyone here has come
> across something like this and can suggest something other than a
> reboot to get rid of it.

This is either a kernel bug or a rootkit :)

you can use strace and /proc to find out what system call and device file 
caused the problem.

cs