> > Hi everyone, > > > > We have a production server running and a user process (standard > > non-privileged user ID) seems to have gotten "stuck". We cannot kill it > > with a good old fashioned "kill -9". Are there any good tricks to kill such > > a process without bringing down the whole server? > > > > TIA, > > > > Hmm not supposed to happen. > > What does the relevent lines from ps axuf look like?
I agree :-) It actually ended up dying since last I looked. However I ps'd it a zillion times, and I did not see anything out of the ordinary. It was a JDK 1.4 JVM process, and I believe the root one at that. That's to say I believe all the threads died properly but the root process just wouldn't go away. It was sticking out because it was burning CPU cycles in the first place. Maybe just an unfortunate quirk that *may* happen with the particular (not entirely up-to-date) version of the kernel I'm running along with the (also not-entire-up-to-date) version of j2sdk... In any case it finally died on its own so hopefully it's definately out of memory and we won't have to bring the server offline. Fred -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list