Re: open office freeze

From: Charles Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/21/05

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:47:07 -0500
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd.questions@gmail.com>

    On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:38 AM, FreeBSD Questions wrote:
    > I too have this problem on my laptop. I was wondering if there is any
    > trick to killing a run away process like open office. I have tried to
    > kill -9 it to no avail and killing its parent process only makes it
    > change its parent process to init. I usually end up restarting but
    > that is sub optimal. There must be some way to kill a process
    > regardless of its state.

    For what it's worth, you might do better to try "kill -HUP" a process
    first, then "kill -TERM", before resorting to "kill -9" (aka "kill
    -KILL"). Using less than maximum force gives the process a chance to
    notice it is supposed to go away and shut down more cleanly. This may
    help.

    However, if you do get a process stuck which won't go away when you
    kill -9 it, consider doing a "ps axl" and see what it's WCHAN is stuck
    on. (BTW, be sure you can discriminate between a zombie waiting for a
    parent to reap it's exit status, ie, "STAT" is "Z"...) 

    -- 
-Chuck
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