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Reza
Asked: 2017-02-20 17:21:01 +0800 CST

"bash" process does not die

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A process with name (command) "bash" is taking about 100% CPU power. When I use the kill command to kill it I don't get any error messages but it nonetheless doesn't die. It doesn't belong to root. Here is the output of ps aux for this process. 

  16819 69.0  0.0  31788  4544 ?        Rs   15:49 188:45 /bin/bash
bash

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  1. Best Answer

    By itself, kill only sends SIGTERM, which asks the process to quit rather than forcing it to quit. Send SIGKILL (signal number 9), which forces it to quit, with the following:

    kill -9 16819

    If that doesn't work, try the following:

    sudo kill -9 16819

    Note that kill -9 should only be used if closing the application normally fails, as it doesn't give the application any time to clean up after itself, to finish up changing anything on disk (potentially leaving a corrupt file), or to save anything.

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