From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 20:35:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064AC37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24885; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:32:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:39:49 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: mike johnson Cc: Subject: Re: kill -9 not going.. In-Reply-To: <20010122061742.2A9F758A0@baddog.yi.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, mike johnson wrote: > Any reason why sometimes when i start gqmpeg it just bogs out and dies but > its still in 'ps x' not as a zombie either. But I can not kill -9(-anything > else either) it , it just ignores the kill and end up haveing to reboot or > after a while the system becomes unstable. Don't have an exact answer, but I do recall in the past discussions about "unkillable processes". A search in the archives will probably get you more info. I do recall it had to do with the priority of the process. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message