kill -9 ! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1624739026353958574
On 29Jun2007 10:24AM (-0700), Brian Friday wrote: > So got stumped yesterday in my interview by a issue I have never seen > before and given the context of the issue and commands google isn't > returning very effective results. > > As a "anyone know this" and a "this is good to know" I'm throwing > this out to the list. > > Scenario: > > 0) solaris operating system > 1) apache process is running away with your resources > 2) it has been killed via "kill -9 pid" > 3) there is still an apache process running but it never responded > to the "kill -9" command and it has not been gone zombie so it is > still using resources at an alarming rate. > > Question: How do you kill this process? > > My gut reaction would be there has got to be a something (connection, > file) which is allowing the process to ignore the "kill -9" command, > find what it is using or what is holding it open and get that process > to release. Then the unkillable process will be killed.... > > My second reaction is you might be stuck in a situation which there > is no other recourse but to reboot. That said there has got to be > something else that could be done in order to kill the process.... > > > > - Brian > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > 909linux@909linux.org > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux -- /* david kaiser (NO SPAM/UCE) pubkey=1C8DCC8D begin e-mail decoder */ main() {int j=-1;char t[]="gndlvhuCfgn1frp\r";while(t[j]!='\r'){putchar(t[++j]-3);}0;}
