[wplug] killing process that will not die

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, John Harrold wrote:

> so my advisor called me into his office this morning and asked me why
> mozilla wouldn't die.  we tried:
>
> kill -9 pid
> killall mozilla-bin

What did top/ps have to say of the process state? Could it be "D" (waiting
for disk I/O), or have a child process that did (check with ps auxf).

Otherwise, did he run kill -9 as root?

Also, if he's running KDE, a very handy (and very brutal) kill -9 can be
done with CTRL-ALT-ESC (and then clicking the window you want dead).

-A