rogue df processes snarfing cpu

[Peter Scott]

One of our machines has been down with a disk problem for a few
days, and therefore the partitions that were NFS-mounted on that
machine are unavailable to the other machines using the same NFS
filesystem.  I have typed "df" a few times to look at the filesystem
usage and while it gives me the prompt back at the end of the output,
it later responds that the other machines's NFS server is dead, and
keeps trying.

We now have several "df" processes running and raising the load
average quite obnoxiously, and I don't know how to get rid of them.
Kill or kill -9 doesn't work.  Suggestions?

SunOS 4.0.3, Sun 3/160.


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