From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 18:03:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05137 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from homer.supersex.com (homer.supersex.com [209.5.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05132 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leo@homer.supersex.com) Received: (from leo@localhost) by homer.supersex.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA23825; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:04:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980722210401.03065@supersex.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:04:01 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: runaway processes References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from The Classiest Man Alive on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 10:33:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 10:33:03AM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > Is there any way to kill a runaway user process that seems impervious to > the "kill" command? In particular, the latest versions of Netscape kill -9 9 as in inverted deep six > Communicator seem prone to running rampant, leaving behind processes that > consume 90+ percent of the CPU even after the program has been exited. > > This is a 2.2.6-RELEASE system. The process is started as a user, but I > can get root access if necessary. > > Thanks in advance, > K.S. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message