I've a little problem: a process (some diff) that just won't die. I've tried=20 kill -s SIG <pid> with SIG =3D 2,3,6,9,14 and 15 but it is still there.
is it a zombie process? (will show up as zombie, Z, or <defunct>) if so you need to kill its parent so init can inherit and destroy the zombie. zombies are the only ones I have seen that will not die with a kill -9.
This process accesses /mnt/md5/ and I cannot remount it ro. (I thought I should always be allowed to rmount,ro something??)
i think if there is a file open with write access enabled or such you cannot remount a filesystem read only, till that file is closed. at least that is what I read on the BSD docs on BSD there is a force option that will force write access to be revoked but its not recommended, and I am not sure what if any linux counterpart there is.
Any ideas how I can get rid of this process?
see above, one way without a reboot (but not by much) is go to single user mode and come back, that kills pretty much all processes.
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