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24.18. Cleaning Up an Unkillable Process

You or another user might have a process that (according to ps (Section 24.5)) has been sleeping for several days, waiting for input. If you can't kill (Section 23.12) the process, even with kill -9, there may be a bug or some other problem.

-- JP



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