Comments on: Two great signals: SIGSTOP and SIGCONT http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/15/two-great-signals-sigstop-and-sigcont/ Words of wisdom from a server administrator Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jkelly http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/15/two-great-signals-sigstop-and-sigcont/#comment-15454 jkelly Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:58:25 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=920#comment-15454 SIGCONT (kill -18 on Linux) is good for killing the dreaded zombie processes that just won't die SIGCONT (kill -18 on Linux) is good for killing the dreaded zombie processes that just won't die

]]> By: Kyle G. http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/15/two-great-signals-sigstop-and-sigcont/#comment-15399 Kyle G. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:45:25 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=920#comment-15399 These commands could be implemented into an easy to make easy to use and hopefully useful bash script. For those too lazy or who want to make it easy in case they forget the exact command (somehow) I think too much but whatever. -Kyle G These commands could be implemented into an easy to make easy to use and hopefully useful bash script.

For those too lazy or who want to make it easy in case they forget the exact command (somehow)

I think too much but whatever.

-Kyle G

]]> By: Ace http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/15/two-great-signals-sigstop-and-sigcont/#comment-15365 Ace Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:28:38 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=920#comment-15365 We had a similar problem when someone wrote C code to fork processes but due to some some bug it kept on creating processes. To stop the main process in its track, we had to login as the user as issue "kill -9 -1" I guess SIGSTOP would have helped. We had a similar problem when someone wrote C code to fork processes but due to some some bug it kept on creating processes.

To stop the main process in its track, we had to login as the user as issue "kill -9 -1"

I guess SIGSTOP would have helped.

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