Comments on: Appropriate Use Of “kill -9 “ http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: desgua http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-124258 desgua Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:36:47 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-124258 I have made a script to automate what you taught us.

Here it is at pastebin: http://pastebin.com/SCcK6dm5

Thank you!

]]> By: lo0m http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116829 lo0m Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:29:10 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116829 Thanx, this article cleared it a lot for me !

]]> By: Thor Dekov Buur http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116828 Thor Dekov Buur Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:49:05 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116828 Great post, thank you! I’ve used kill -9 for ages and never thought it might be a problem.

]]> By: Banpei http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116826 Banpei Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:35:01 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116826 Why SIGSEGV instead of SIGQUIT? Its default action is to dump core and it’s bound to Ctrl-\

]]> By: Jonathan Carter http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116825 Jonathan Carter Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:26:26 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116825 KILL DASH NINE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

]]> By: Jason http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116824 Jason Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:35:29 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116824 Frankly (and I don’t blame you) I think for the average joe thats way too much effort, now if there was a program perhaps esckill (esculating kill) that did all that for me on supply of a PID I’d happily do it, but other than that I’ll stikc -9 as it works for me, and I’ve yet to encounter any problems with corruption afterwards.

]]> By: Carroarmato0 http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116822 Carroarmato0 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:43:53 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116822 Wow thanks for the blog post. I’ve been using Linux for quite some years now and also had to deal with misbehaving processes once in a while. I usually try to send a SIGTERM to the processes before trying a SIGKILL. But I didn’t know or use the other possible signals not knowing their effect. Thank you for clearing that up.

]]> By: Samundra Shrestha http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/#comment-116821 Samundra Shrestha Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:26:39 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2004#comment-116821 Wow !!! This is really very helpful information. I always used to use kill -9 but now onwards will be using your suggestions :) Thanks for the info.

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