Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, A. Costa wrote: > How would I stop this rampant process? Based on your diagnosis, it > sounds as if it should have been killable if the last child process > were killed first, working backwards.
I would send a "kill" to the parent which would then try to shut down all the child processes. > If I recall correctly, 'kill -9' as 'root' didn't work, on either end > of the process tree/branch. It's happened at least five times now, so I've > had several chances to try different things. Rebooting worked. A "kill -9" to the parent is usually the culprit that creates the zombie process in the first place. The problem in your case is that the child processes "refuse" to shut down. That is quite unusual. Let me see if I can figure out why. > This bug has had a "major effect" on my system. Please upgrade the severity as you feel appropriate. I just lowered the severity because I thought the problems were related and wanted to mere the bugs. My basic remark about "who is responsible for long running cron jobs" being a difficult decision (see the other bug report) still applies. Thanks and regards, Kapil. --
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