Useless use of kill -9

If you run 'top' you can press 'k', the PID and then enter to send 'kill -15' - the clean shutdown. As a student I only learned '-9'... Incidentally, I Googled 'kill signals' to get this page. To people that believe that Steve Ballmer is god... more

Reviewed by PipSqueak42 Jul 01 2008, 02:26pm ( 8 reviews ) • sial.org

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Reviewed by squintsgeek on Feb 09 2009, 2:18pm

Well, I agree that you shouldn't just blast away everything with 9's, however, if a process isn't working, don't be afraid to use it. With great power comes great responsibility. (That's right, I used a comic book reference in a Unix StumbleUpon comment. +1 nerd HP to me.)
Rated by hgfernan on Jan 27 2009, 1:51pm

text and associate script explaining why kill -9 shouldn't be issued without some care.
Rated by InfieBoy on Jan 25 2009, 10:04pm

Need a shell script that reallykill's?
Rated by GreenBoy on Jan 25 2009, 9:06pm

You can't kill Zombies. Ok that's a little unrelated, but kill -9 is when normal kills don't work.
Rated by PipSqueak42 on Jul 01 2008, 2:26pm

If you run 'top' you can press 'k', the PID and then enter to send 'kill -15' - the clean shutdown. As a student I only learned '-9'... Incidentally, I Googled 'kill signals' to get this page. To people that believe that Steve Ballmer is god (typical IT dept.) and have never seen the command line 'kill signals' must be mindboggling.
Reviewed by Emon on Dec 29 2006, 6:41pm

hey I like "kill -9" .. :-(

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