RE: killall -9 does not work !?

From: Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 14:29:03 EST


Have seen the same -- httpd hung when coming up -- I guess something was
misconfigured. It was on a lab machine, so didn't care so much, but
kill -9 on the <pid> had no effect. I think it was waiting on WCHAN 'down'.
Weird.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of octave klaba
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:09 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: killall -9 does not work !?
>
>
> Hi,
> working on 2.2.14, I have had a DOS attack on web server
> making the load about 256.
>
> I tried to killall -9 httpd and it did not work at all !!
> in ps auxw I still had all process of httpd.
> I did reboot serveur and it became normal.
>
> question: why killall did not work ??
>
> Thx
> Octave
>
> Amicalement,
> oCtAvE
>
> "J'aime trop la vie pour ne vouloir être qu'heureux."
>
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