killing a process gone bad.
Tatjana Heuser
pierrot at opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon Oct 29 11:00:08 AEST 1990
gwoho at nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>then ran it. how would i kill it? i could kill one of them, but
>then the others multiply until the limit is reached. then one fails,
>terminates, and a new one appears, etc. so i have 1000 processes
>with constantly changing pids that have too be stopped simultaneously.
>any ideas for stopping it?
the fastest way coming to my mind would be 'kill -9 -1'
sending a sigkill to every process attached. -not smart but effective-
-tatjana
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