Unable to kill runaway app. -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Aug 20 19:31:43 UTC 2009


Andras Simon wrote:
> On 8/20/09, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to know
>> what other commands I might try to restore things without shutting down
>> and rebooting.
>>     
>
> kill -9 <pid> can be pretty effective.
>
> Andras
>
>   
Yes I tried kill -9 3487 and even -0. I have some trouble understanding 
the Kill man page but those seemed like something to try.

And I must apologizes for "cup" instead of cpu, my spell checker did 
that for me. I thought I told it to remember the word but must have 
clicked the wrong spot?

Bob




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