Re: [LUG] How to *really* kill processes?

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Stone wrote:

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> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> | For some reason, Samba has decided to spawn literally hundreds of
> | processed which are now in "D" state (not sure what that means).
> | Although the CPU and swap are almost completely idle, my system load is
> | running at around 300 and strange things are happening (like it 
> dropping
> | my SSH connection when I tried to log in).
> |
> | I'll probably have to restart this time, but in future, how can I kill
> | processes that just won't die?  I've already tried "killall -9 smbd".
> |
> | TIA,
> |
> | Jon
>
> Does killing the processes individually help at all ?? if so somthing 
> like;
>
> for i in `pidof smbd`; do kill -9 $i; done

I tried the manual equivalent, but to no avail :-(

Cheers,

Jon


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