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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Runaway process. Opinions needed Post 38177 by Perderabo on Tuesday 8th of July 2003 02:51:00 PM
Old 07-08-2003
RTM, this sounds like a "while(1) fork();" situation. Every single process is trying to make more copies of itself.

You can su to the user in question. Then you can do: "kill -9 -1" which will kill every process owned by that user. That is the trick that I think you are looking for.

But: "kill -STOP -1" is more subtle. All of the user's processes will suddenly stop running. Then you can "kill -9" the bad guys. After the bad guys are gone, you can "kill -CONT" any good processes that you don't want to lose.

If your shell does not have kill as a built-in, there is a problem... you probably can't start another process to run the kill command. If that happens, use: "exec /usr/bin/kill -9 -1" or whatever.
 

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killall

killall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       killall(1M)

NAME

       killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/killall [signal]

DESCRIPTION

       killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure.

       killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.

       killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.

       The killall command can be run only by the super-user.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5)

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