Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:08:17 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot? |
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Well, the unkillable process continues on. Does nobody else have any ideas on > how to kill an unkillable process in the R state thats sucking up all my unused > cpu cycles? > > If not I'm going to have to reboot this thing...
Short term hack: renice it to 20, so it doesn't interfere with normal workload. Also try sending it a SIGSTOP, although I doubt that will work here. I think strace will fail the same way gdb does, but try that too...
James. -- "Our attitude with TCP/IP is, `Hey, we'll do it, but don't make a big system, because we can't fix it if it breaks -- nobody can.'"
"TCP/IP is OK if you've got a little informal club, and it doesn't make any difference if it takes a while to fix it." -- Ken Olson, in Digital News, 1988
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