Unable to kill runaway app. -

[Bob Goodwin]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:31 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>   
>>
>> As previously stated, use kill -9 <pid>. The kill command without the
>> -9 only works if the process actually listens to signals, which is not
>> likely if it's stuck in some (semi-)infinite loop.
>>     
>
> To be pedantic, even -9 will only work if the process is "listening".
> That's because signal-handling is done by the kernel side of the process
> itself. The point about -9 (SIGKILL) is that the process can't trap or
> mask it, but if it's stuck waiting on an uninterruptible kernel event
> ('D' state) there is nothing that will kill it short of rebooting.
>
> poc
Yes, I guess I've had that demonstrated to me.

I've added the option soft to the client /etc/fstab which may make it 
possible to interrupt things?

That is, if I have done the right thing in the right place.

Bob