From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas Steinbrecher" Subject: killing a stuborn process Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:34:00 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Greetings, please excuse if this is a newbie question, I'm no computer expert. I have several dual ATHLON PC's with Suse 8.0 in a Beowulf cluster on which I run molecular dynamics calculations. On one of my machines the calculations stop sometimes without apparent reason and I can't end the processes anymore (kill -9 has no effect). The processes are shown as running by ps, but they produce no cpu load with top. Is there another way to kill such a process? I suppose one of the CPUs might be damaged, but how do I test if that is true and what causes the processes to hangup? (The same calculation runs fine on another PC with identical software and hardware setup) Regards, Thomas