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Subject: Unkillable processes
From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
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Hello there,

I've had a process on state "pfault" and it was just unkillable, kill
-9 had no effects and because the script was doing an infinite loop
the machine was slower and slower so the only way to fix that was a
reboot.

Why kill -9 has still no effects on some bad processes?

Regards,

--
Demelier David