a process won't die 1

[mag007]

I have several processes that just refuse to be killed.

I did a kill -9, and the process is still there with the same PID. The parent is PID 1.

Any better way?

How can I find out, when the process started? ps -ef just gives me '2006', no exact date.

TIA

 

[thedaver]

Are they zombies? You don't need to worry about zombies..

Throw a snapshot of the offending processes here from
"ps waux"

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[Annihilannic]

ps -o etime <PID> will tell you how long the process has been running.

Annihilannic.

 

[mag007]

Annih:

very nice! That helps out a lot..