Re: Help : kill -9 pid does not work!!!

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Dr Colin Bridgewater (crccobr++at++nocrc.abb.no)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:37:04 +0200

Hi Ren

Ren-Jye Yu wrote:
> My application freezed the screen when I ran it. I used kill -9 pid
> to kill the process but it didn't work. Can you tell me other ways
> to kill the process besides reboot the system? How to use "freeproc"
> which is shipped with Peformer? I am running Performer 2.0 and IRIX
> 6.2. on RE2 with MCO installed.

Sometimes killall is a better approach since perfly may spawn up to 5
separate processes on a single-pipe, single-cpu machine. Using kill -9
will get one of them but if it's not the APP you kill off, well who
knows what may happen...

Best wishes

Colin
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