Can't seem to kill a process

[tstormchaser]

I've got a process running on the server that opens a display on a workstation. From time to time, this process will get hung, eat up a ton of CPU usage, and I'm never able to kill it. I tried rebooting the workstation, no dice. Logged into the server as root and did a kill -9 on the process, still killing the CPU. Anyone have any ideas other than rebooting. Rebooting does fix it but I would rather not have to go that route every time. Thanks in adavance.

 

[rraj]

How the process was started? If it is started by inittab
remove it from there or check you RC scripts.

 

[Sekhar]

There could be some open files in memory that are bound by this process. Try to find those files using lsof.