how to kill this process?

Tue May 2 21:05:37 UTC 2006

On Tue, 02 May 2006 12:58:57 -0700
Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:13, R Kimber wrote:
> > I have a process taking up 100% of CPU:
> > 29477 root      25   0  7024 1516 1112 R  100  0.1  52:48.84 sh
> > 
> > but I don't seem to be able to kill it.  I assume its being run by
> > cron:
> > 
> > 29476 ?        S      0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
> > 29477 ?        Rs    49:20 /bin/sh -c    run-parts
> > --report /etc/cron.hourly
> > 
> > I've tried -9 and -15  - is there anything I can do to kill it, or
> > must I reboot?
> 
> Processes stuck in D state are sometimes unkillable but
> those in R state are usually killable.  Did you issue
> the kill commands as root?

Yes, as root.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/