can't kill a process 2

[packback]

Is there any other way to kill a process other than kill?
I have two processes
PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
0 20 0K 0K run 0:00 0.00% 71.67%
0 20 0K 0K run 0:00 0.00% 71.26%
that will not respond to the kill command. I don't think
my system is any slower but I get alerts on my CPU monitor.

 

[aixqueen]

what are the commands? or processes that are running....... does it show the name...and what the pid and ppid are? are they defunct?

If they are kproc or gil, they are system processes that appear hogs, but aren't...

If they are defunct, there is no way to kill... If they are your process, and you are root you should be able to do a kill -15 pid or kill -9 pid to stop the process....

Not sure I understand....please give us more info?

 

[packback]

The processes are owned by a user and the command it shows when I do a ps -elf is []. I have tried kill -15 and kill -9, but neither work. I am sure they are processes that appear to be hogs but are not. I do have a pid and ppid for each.

 

[crowe]

It is pretty much an un-written rule that any process that does not die from a kill -9 issued by the root user, will only be removed by re-booting the system. I usually give it three kills in a row, and if that does not do it, I start planning for a system bounce.

# kill -9 1426 1426 1426

crowe

 

[bjverzal]

[] are defunct. Zombies. Can't touch 'em.

Bill.

 

[packback]

That is pretty much what I thought. Thanks