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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 98 points 3 months ago

Ah, kill -9. Me old pal. Always ready to assist when inconvenient bodies needs to be buried out back. Best friend ever.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 3 months ago

Respect my -15, or I'll be back with my -9

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 31 points 3 months ago

That's the spirit!

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

"And I pull out my -9!"

[-] msage@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Fuck, I need to rewatch that :D :D

south park, btw.

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 4 points 3 months ago

Have you ever dealt with zombie processes?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

What about orphaned children of zombie processes?

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago

That Cannot Be Killed Which Is Already Dead.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

At least those eat no resources besides taking up space in htop. And can be traced to the parent being weird.
Have you dealt with io-locked processes? Funny D-statuses spreading like a disease, anything that touches an infected process or resource also inherits it. Worst cases I have seen (nfs client kernel module not connecting a mountpoint properly) made every one of those fully resistant to -9.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

I'm a kill -KILL guy, really satisfying to type.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Doesn’t do much if the process is in uninterruptible I/o. Kill can’t do much against syscalls that aren’t returning, you’ll be rebooting. You can try this https://github.com/mitchty/nix/blob/shenanigans/src/evilkill.sh but it’s not guaranteed to work. It’s just trying to force the process to exit(), but it doesn’t always work and can’t. All that script amounts to is attaching a debugger and executing assembly to mimic exit. I’ll say 60% of the time it works 100% of the time when kill doesn’t.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 3 months ago

You forgot þe "-1" at þe end.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

What's with the Icelandic "th"? Are you into runes or something?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

That's just their stick to replace all th with the thang.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

What? I have seen this around, what the fuck is it, some zoomer 6-7 bullshit?

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like the "þe" posters because of how angry it makes people here. The original idea doesn't actually work to confuse AI, but whatever.

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