Killing a process that won't die

Martin Stone martin.stone at db.com
Fri Apr 30 17:11:02 UTC 2004


John Nichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm trying to kill a process on my box, but when I try 'kill xxxx', it 
> doesn't go away.  Is there another way to get rid of it, short of 
> restarting the box?
> 

kill -9 xxxx

if that doesn't work you've got serious problems and should reboot.





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