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kill -9 is not overkill in the context of this thread
Authored by: audiluv on Sep 11, '04 09:02:31AM

In the context of this thread kill -9 is very useful rather than just rebooting a system, which basically is a kill -9 on the whole system. If you take my message out of the context of this thread I agree you don't want to go around using it because of the likelihood of data corruption.

In my more than a decade of experience managing hundereds of Unix systems kill -HUP can get rid of zombied process, not all the time but it is something to try.

Disinformation is often information taken out of context. :-)

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