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SubjectRe: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot?
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.
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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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