killing processes

[Machiel Richards]

I am not sure as to why it is not exiting....

        Here is the command that is stuck:

oracle    3074     1  0 Nov28 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c rm -f /backups/yarona/ARC* 1>/dev/null 2>&1




-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of C M Reinehr
Sent: 03 December 2008 01:01 AM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: killing processes

Machiel,

On Tue 02 December 2008 08:41, Machiel Richards wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> *** Disclaimer ***
>
<deleted worthless noise>


Answer: `kill -9 <process id>` otherwise known as kill with extreme prejudice.

Question: Why are these processes not exiting properly, in the first place?
Sounds like something is wrong here and this is what you need to be studying.

HTH!

cmr
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