On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Chirag Anand <anand.chi...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > Hi Akshat, in such situations, I generally recommend using pkill > (perhaps with -9), and _patience_ to kill all the instances of that > particular process. It may not get triggered instantaneously but > definitely does the job. You might want to keep doing it until you > have killed the source which is forking every second. 'ps aux | grep ' > also comes in handy, but again takes some time, but gives you a sense > of how many processes are left to kill.
The patience required to kill 32,000 of them would be infinite. And as he said, he cannot run anything else except bash commands. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
