on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:11:48PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > Using kill -9 on a process means you may have to clean up the pieces. > > Signals 15, 1, and 2 (TERM, HUP, and INT), are generally considered to > > be polite requests to jobs to get the hell over it already, but to clean > > I think Unix designers were having mixed feelings about "kill"; "kill > -15", killing me softly... ha, just like a song, ...killing me softly > with his words ...killing me softly with his songs...
Reminds me of what she said when....nevermind. > > up on the way out. SIGKILL is nonmaskable, and a process *can't* > > perform cleanup or garbage collection even if it wants to. > > I see; so the memory that once was used, wouldn't be returned back to > the OS, right? No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. > > Most zombies are waiting for a resource to close. Hitting the other end > > of the resource (parent or child) generally does same. > > So basically, if that happened, it just means that the other side was > not yet exiting. (?) > Really mean... Something like. > > This is a case where you may have to shut down. Sometimes you can get > > the buggers if you shoot at 'em enough ways though. > > Whoa, I tried many times, kill -9, killall -9 <progname>, to no avail. Look for parents/children. The zombies themselves won't hurt anything unless they fill your process table. > BTW, if I unload the NIC driver (along with lo), would the daemon exit? > I was thinking about it, but since I was remote logging in to the > machine, rebooting was the only option. Maybe. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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