Re: so, no way to kill process? have to reboot?

James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:08:17 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> Well, the unkillable process continues on. Does nobody else have any ideas on
> how to kill an unkillable process in the R state thats sucking up all my unused
> cpu cycles?
>
> If not I'm going to have to reboot this thing...

Short term hack: renice it to 20, so it doesn't interfere with normal
workload. Also try sending it a SIGSTOP, although I doubt that will work
here. I think strace will fail the same way gdb does, but try that too...

James.

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