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From: Bob K <melange@europa.humberc.on.ca>
To: Greg Pierce <greg@west.netsol.com>
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Subject: Re: reboot killing process
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Greg Pierce wrote:

> 	I exit netscape and the process does not die.  In fact it starts
> to take up 100% of the CPU.  I let it go for a while to make sure its
> not really going to do something.  I kill -9 the process.  It doesn't
> die.  ps and top show it still there, still eating 100% of the CPU.
> I kill -9 the process again.  My machine reboots itself after 1-2 
> seconds of being locked up.  

Personally, I've found that kill -6 works much better in that specific
situation...