[wplug] killing process that will not die

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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).

i don't remember what the process state was. he needed to use mozilla for
mail, so i told him to reboot. i just wanted to know how to deal with this
for future reference. what would i do in the case where the process is
waiting for disk io?

| Otherwise, did he run kill -9 as root?

no we ran it as his user. i thought that would be enough since he owned the
process.

| 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).

the window was already done, otherwise i would have tried xkill.


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