> > 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 serve
Is it a zombie? If so, then it's not actually using any CPU time (see my
rant on zombies at
http://www.advogato.org/person/johnnyb/diary.html?start=31 for more info
about what they are and how to kill them).
Otherwise, what you have is either a hardware or kernel error.
You might try sending wie
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:25, Fred wrote:
> 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
