killing processes

[Machiel Richards]

Hi all

                I hope someone can assist......

                We have a cron that runs regularly....however one of the child processes produced by the cron keeps on running even after the cron has completed...

                This uses up a lot of resources and we have not been able to kill it, not even by using kill -9.

                This is on a production system and we cannot afford to reboot the server.


                Can anybody perhaps tell us how to kill these type of processes?


Regards




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