From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 18:19:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from angui.sh (angui.sh [216.27.181.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E97837B400; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wfroning@localhost) by angui.sh (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0N2PW927078; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wfroning@angui.sh) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:25:32 -0800 (PST) From: Will Froning To: Greg Lehey Cc: Subject: Re: URGENT: kill -9 doesn't work In-Reply-To: <20020123123953.J62266@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20020122182201.S12282-100000@angui.sh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 First off, I liked your book it's on my desk right now. I feared that I would have to reboot. I was just hoping there was some ninja-guru move I wasn't aware of. I don't have control over the box. I'm only called when there's a problem. Basic life of a sysadmin. Thanks for the quick response. Will =>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 => -- Will Froning Unix Sys. Admin. wfroning@angui.sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message