From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 08:55:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24621 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (sendmail@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24608 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.90] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0yz1Ee-0000Vu-00; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:55:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella To: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: RE: runaway processes Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Netscape process can be killed with a "kill -9 pid". It's a problem with the Java portion of Netscape. If you turn off Java, you probably won't have the runaway any more. Patrick On 22-Jul-98 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message