Re: Dead jobs


Wes Bauske (wsb@paralleldata.com)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:56:14 -0600


Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
> Quoting Jacek Perry (chrobry@yahoo.com):
> > Anyway I have a quick question. For some reason I can't allways kill
> > jobs. Especially if they are running in Xwindows. For instance when
>
> As a last resort, "kill -9 pid". But only after you've tried other means of
> killing a program, because "kill -9" is a hard kill, and doesn't give a
> program a chance to catch the signal and clean up before dying.
>

I always use a "kill -11 pid" first to see if a SEGV will
make it go away gracefully before trying a kill -9.

I occasionally see Netscape hang in a hard cpu loop and
sending it a kill -11 makes it go away.

Wes

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