Re: Unkillable processes with 2.2.12/2.2.13pre17

Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:20:43 +0200

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> > Try kill -KILL - I discovered it by accident one day and it's absolutely
> > grouse. Kills everything bar zombies.
>
> Er.. and uninterruptible processes. kill -9 is kill -KILL. The 'l'
> option in ps will say what function the prcoesses are stuck in.
>
> Tim.
> */

Ok, I found some ps output of these processes in my sent-mail. (As I said
I had to boot due to the Xfree dpms lock up, so I don't have such
unkillable process in hand. Yet.)

This was with 2.2.12:

root@babbage:/dev>kill -KILL 10362
^ I tried to execute that dozens of times.
root@babbage:/dev>ps 10362
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
10362 ? RWN 0:03 [mpg123]
root@babbage:/dev>kill -KILL 10362
root@babbage:/dev>ps -l `pidof mpg123`
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
000 R 1414 10362 10361 0 62 2 - 361 - ? 0:03 [mpg123]

And this with 2.2.13pre17:

root@babbage:/home/vherva>ps -l 17625
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
000 R 1414 17625 16744 1 65 5 - 1844 - pts/2 70:05 [enlightenm
root@babbage:/home/vherva>killall -v -9 enlightenment
Killed enlightenment(17625)
root@babbage:/home/vherva>ps -l 17625
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
000 R 1414 17625 16744 1 65 5 - 1844 - pts/2 70:05 [enlightenm
root@babbage:/home/vherva>kill -9 17625
^ (Several times)
root@babbage:/home/vherva>ps -l 17625
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
000 R 1414 17625 16744 1 65 5 - 1844 - pts/2 70:05 [enlightenm

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