Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 9 06:09:36 2010 From: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300 To: questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct

Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread Eitan Adler
Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). This is often caused by me killing the process using kill -15 or kill -3 or kill -9. What can I do to

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). This is often caused by me

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread Joshua Gimer
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com 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.

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com 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