Killing a stubborn process...
I have a stubborn process on my OpenBSD box that just refuses to die. It is taking up about half a meg of memory and refuses to die. It appears to be an errant gzip process that was executed from the console on 06 Jan 2002.
Here is a snippet of my attempts to kill the gzip process
Code:
/home/joeuser $ ps -aux | grep "gzip"
root 13647 0.0 0.1 452 408 C0- DL 6Jan02 4:41.24 gzip -c
/home/joeuser $ kill 13647
/home/joeuser $ ps -aux | grep "gzip"
root 13647 0.0 0.1 452 408 C0- DL 6Jan02 4:41.24 gzip -c
/home/joeuser $ kill -HUP 13647
/home/joeuser $ ps -aux | grep "gzip"
root 13647 0.0 0.1 452 408 C0- DL 6Jan02 4:41.24 gzip -c
/home/joeuser $ kill -9 13647
/home/joeuser $ ps -aux | grep "gzip"
root 13647 0.0 0.1 452 408 C0- DL 6Jan02 4:41.24 gzip -c
/home/joeuser $ kill -9 13647
/home/joeuser $ kill -9 13647
/home/joeuser $ kill -9 13647
/home/joeuser $ ps -aux | grep "gzip"
root 13647 0.0 0.1 452 408 C0- DL 6Jan02 4:41.24 gzip -c
It just refuses to die. According the ps, it has core memory pages locked and some disk access. According to top, the it isn't doing too much and not taking up any CPU time:
Code:
13647 root -5 0 452K 408K idle physio 4:42 0.00% gzip
Any suggestions on killing this process other than reboot? I really want to keep the uptime high (yeah, cheap bragging rights...  )
Code:
/home/joeuser $ uptime
5:16PM up 62 days, 23:17, 1 user, load averages: 1.13, 1.12, 1.09
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