"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then > try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9.
killall -9 <program name> would be much more efficient, right? > True unkillable zombies are rather rare. Usually, it's pretty difficult; even though they are already half-dead. BTW, speaking about killing processes... Once I had a daemon that couldn't be killed because the client program that once connected to it didn't close the ports properly. So the daemon was just there sitting, waiting for a time-out. But it didn't happen. Magically, kill -9 didn't work; the daemon materialized as a zombie, yet it was a strong one. It was pretty amusing... how long would a TCP connection time out given that any other side doesn't close the connection (and none is reading the ports)? Or, it just simply wouldn't time out? Oki
