Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:57:14 -0600 | | From | Robert Hancock <> | | Subject | Re: Killing a process with a kernel module |
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Patrick Barnes wrote: > Hi there, > > RedHat recently released RHEL4 U2, and this update has some > unfortunate consequences, mainly > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170087 > > As stated in the bugzilla report above, useradd gets stuck in a R > state and ignores all signals. > > I have a critical system which I can't take down for another week or > so, but the extra load generated by the rogue useradd process is > slowing things down a little too much. > > I was wondering if it was possible to safely terminate the process > using a more direct method (perhaps by manipulating kernel data > structures.) > > What I'd like to know is if it is actually possible before attempting > to write the code to do it. > > I know this is a long shot, but it's probably worth trying. :) > > Thanks for your time. I look forward to any replies.
If it's not responding to signals I wouldn't count on being able to do this safely. Can't you nice the process down to lowest priority?
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