Unkillable processes?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat Feb 25 08:16:01 EST 2006


On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:36:01 -0500
aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> When I encounter processes which are unresponsive to kill -9, I find that
> this generally works:
> 
>   runlevel # say the current runlevel is 3
>   telinit 1
>   telinit 3
This will almost always work, especially with zombie processes. 
What you are doing is transitioning into single-user mode. 

Many times, if you are in run level 5 (GUI in most systems),
transitioning to run level 3 (multi-user mode no GUI) will also do some
very good cleanup. Then of course going to run level 6 tends to cure
all ills :-)
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