From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 07:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09729 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA28499 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA05600 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:33:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.cybercom.net: ksmm owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:33:03 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: runaway processes 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 Is there any way to kill a runaway user process that seems impervious to the "kill" command? In particular, the latest versions of Netscape Communicator seem prone to running rampant, leaving behind processes that consume 90+ percent of the CPU even after the program has been exited. This is a 2.2.6-RELEASE system. The process is started as a user, but I can get root access if necessary. Thanks in advance, K.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message