kill -9 no affect?
 

Hi,

have this crazy issue, coming out of suspend on Kubuntu 10.10. My qt based graphics app, hangs during it's startup. But it's always only after resuming from suspend. Hang is very soon after glx rendering contexts are created, so it's likely x11 or nvidia driver related. But now the strange part:

has no affect. How can that be? ps and top show the app as "R" running with cpu pegged 100%. Why does kill -9 not work? I've even run as root. I thought -9 would bring anything down. what gives?

It won't kill zombie processes. You may need to kill the parent pid if it is a zombie.

That is my point it's not a zombie according to ps. Ps reports that it's status is R not Z.