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> 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 ??
>
> Recall that killall parses proc, and you'll know that it _couldnot
> haveworked_.
Doesn't matter. killall could have been scanning the process table directly
and it still would not have worked and for the same reason described
elsewhere.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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