Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: tkaila@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Thileepan Kailasanathan)
Subject: Re: runaway slave processes (How to delete them)..?
Organization: University of Cape Town
Date: 8 Nov 1995 08:06:18 GMT
Message-ID: <47podq$6i9@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>

Vijay Gupta (gupta@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
: Even though the PVM is no longer running, I notiecd that there are some
: slave processes still running in the background (maybe due to some 
: application which crashed). I tried to kill the processes using the
: "kill -9" command and they are not responding to it. 
: I even tried to do the same as root but no success. 

: Anybody have any ideas how I can delete them ? 

this usually means the pvmd3 that spawned it is still running or, if it
is not meant to be, did not exit properly. if you don't need the pvmd, kill
it using kill -9 xxxxx.

thileepan

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