[PLUG] Kill

D. Cooper Stevenson cstevens at gencom.us
Mon Feb 28 18:04:53 UTC 2005


Michael,

Not recommended for normal production use but when one must...

  # ps -ef | grep pdfs | awk '{ print $2 }' | while read proc [enter]
  # do [enter]
   # kill -9 $proc [enter]
  # done


-Coop

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:53 -0800, Michael Montagne wrote:

> So I made a neato cron job that ran every minute  and now it has
> locked up my server.  It calls gs to make pdfs.  I have MANY gs
> processes running but I can't kill them.  I tried "killall gs" and
> "kill-9 22884"  the machine is so slow, every step takes 5 minutes.
> How can I stop these things.
> 
> 
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