From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 13:07:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30801065670 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:07:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jgimer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C69A8FC16 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm34 with SMTP id 34so417170yxm.13 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:07:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Yyylr73fP1PsVAZKLSGzldKcETj3DggEVlEV0X4K+UQ=; b=Xixpas5aLlAlpVFLqJ4wDLXw6eFgK19WRnoakc2Grpf7bluvotqZ5mBV1LXD+A9QyG slJt0FMxCn3jQuSYfAxt+fSNk9kwv+33hz2wMmRX3lvunKrLlpk3Xlh3YPb+ls9BxptL y5OFByYkOZSq1Vd70hGOa+3/CHCz2POqwNymk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=pXEjd/ul3C96DTG/O8PcNAJJ4bseIpZSV5M3rLBhXmow/j+K2L+uUUoGtTHUiLvTLp lSU/EbbghsfzcGdZ+gmCqB7ZBAWgceyPoZFkD1oJS8DEkjSs8KjRk43zF1ooQim+KA+u Two/j2hWO+lNUC3ngvu4rz0/LpWymDSuDRY18= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.86.2 with SMTP id o2mr3163653ybl.318.1276087312891; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.42.10 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:41:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:41:52 -0600 Message-ID: From: Joshua Gimer To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:07:25 -0000 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > What can I do to determine why processes are not getting killed by kill -9? > > Try attaching to it using truss to see if it will shed some light on the reason why the process will not die. http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/1/truss/ -- Thanks, Joshua Gimer --------------------------- http://www.linkedin.com/in/jgimer http://twitter.com/jgimer http://itsecops.blogspot.com/