J. wrote on Apr 9^th, 2008 at 6:28pm:


Kill-9
The -9 (or -KILL) argument to kill should never be used on Unix systems, except as a very last resort. The KILL signal does not allow a process to run any cleanup code, which means blasting away with kill -9 may leave child processes of a parent orphaned, temporary files open, shared memory segments active, and sockets busy. This leaves the system in a messy state, and could lead to unanticipated and hard to debug problems.



LOL..."I drop Bitches like a modem drops packets"