[PLUG] Kill

[Michael Montagne]

>On 02/28/05, Paul Heinlein busted out the keyboard and typed:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, 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.
> 
> First off, stop crond. That'll give you some breathing room. Then kill 
> the errant gs processes. Then edit your crontab to remove the job or, 
> perhaps, reduce its frequency so you can observe it more closely. Then 
> restart crond.
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

Whew.  Took a while but a series of "pgrep gs|xargs kill -9" did the
trick.  After stopping crond of course.  Thanks for the tips.  


-- 
Michael Montagne
michael at themontagnes.com
http://www.themontagnes.com