From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 18:10: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD4C37B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D5DA678307; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:39:53 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:39:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Will Froning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT: kill -9 doesn't work Message-ID: <20020123123953.J62266@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020122175821.U12282-100000@angui.sh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122175821.U12282-100000@angui.sh> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 22 January 2002 at 18:00:11 -0800, Will Froning wrote: > Does anyone know how to kill a process that doesn't respond to kill > -9? Reboot. > It keeps dumping core to a nfs server and quickly filling it up. I > cannot reboot the machine. Any hints? Basically, if you have a process which you can't kill with -9, it's because it's holding on to some kernel resource, and there's nothing you can do about it until it releases the resource. In this case, it's obviously in 'stopping' state, so you won't be able to stop it until it's dumped its core. You should set up your login class so that it won't dump core. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message