Re: [SLUG] Killing processes - I've tried every signal I know

["Roger Salisbury" <rojee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

another thought:

# killall -HUP proccessname/proccessid

cheers
Roger



> SLUG,
> I need advice on killing processes. I've got 3 processes that are 
> consuming 1.4 GB of memory and I've tried everything I can think of to 
> kill them. Has anyone any suggestions? The processes in the process list 
> appear as:
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>   F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR    SZ WCHAN  TTY       CMD
> 000 D 10649 11116     1  0  80   5    - 395078 lock_p ?        diff
> 000 D 10649 14356     1  0  80   5    - 395078 lock_p ?        diff
> 000 D 10649 14665     1  0  80   5    -   404 lock_p ?         wc
> 
> I've tried kill -9, kill -15, and kill -s SIGNAME for virtually every 
> SIGNAME I could find in "Advanced Programming in a Unix Env" by Stevens.
> 
> How often does this type of locked process occur ?
> 
> If someone can save me rebooting this machine I'd be most appreciative!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim Bateman
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