On 06Sep2015 14:22, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 09/06/2015 01:40 PM, François Patte wrote:
>Le 06/09/2015 16:05, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
>>On 09/06/2015 09:57 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>>Le 06/09/2015 15:55, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
>>>>I was copying some files to a newly set up USB HD, and then
>>>>did some umounts when done. Well they are still running, and
>>>>kill pid
>>>>is not killing them and they are taking up most of my cpu.
>>>>I have never seen 'kill' fail.
>>>>What can I do other than reboot?
>>>kill -9
>>Do you mean:
>>kill -9 2200
>>where 2200 is the pid number I want dead?
>exactly! This will the process without any regard to other linked
>processes
Thanks I will know this for next time.
Bear in mind tht "kill -9" is a method of last resort. You're there of
course,
but some people start with kill -9 - that is bad. Normal kill (kill -TERM, kill
-15) sends SIGTERM, which a process can catch allowing it to tidy up and then
exit cleanly. Always start with plain kill before kill -9.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au>