kill -9 does nothing

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> Op 8 aug. 2019, om 20:55 heeft David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> On 8/8/19 9:05 AM, hw wrote:
>> Hi,
>> how do you get rid of unresponsive processes?  Even 'kill -9' does
>> nothing, and Firefox has a tendency to become unresponsive.  I can't
>> restart the server all the time and kick off all users in the process.
> 
> 

<snip>kind of irrelevant story

You could try to kill its parent (ps -axd shows the processes in a kind of tree like view).

Peter