From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 19:44:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162D237B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:44:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp010.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.18] helo=moo.holy.cow) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TELC-0000gV-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:44:50 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0F84950BA8; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:46:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:46:49 -0500 From: parv To: Will Froning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT: kill -9 doesn't work Message-ID: <20020123034649.GA92597@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Will Froning , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020122175821.U12282-100000@angui.sh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122175821.U12282-100000@angui.sh> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20020122175821.U12282-100000@angui.sh>, wrote Will Froning thusly... > > Does anyone know how to kill a process that doesn't respond to kill > -9? > > It keeps dumping core to a nfs server and quickly filling it up. I > cannot reboot the machine. Any hints? i don't know if it was you who had posted similar problem on comp.unix.(admin|questions). in any case, SIGSEGV was suggested along w/ possible reason of SIGKILL not working. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message