Hello,

under special situations I have to kill a process on a HP-UX 11.11 server
(PA-RISC, all patches installed). In some situations, the process will not
die. Even "kill -9" doesn't work. Is this behavior correct? I always
thought that a SIGKILL will work under any conditions.

BTW: The process is a Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.0 on a two
processor A-Class 500 server with two database engines. I want to kill
both dataserver processes, but none of them is killable. So I have to
reboot the machine which takes about 5 minutes downtime :-(

Regards,
Elmar

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