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What to do if kill -9 doesn't work?

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Mar 15, 20265998 views
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I've got a pesky process (in this case, a stranded process that was supposed to be running in iPhone Simulator (now long quit). I've tried everything I can think of, including And yet, like the Raven... the process remains. In this case, it means in order to continue working I have to reboot my mac…

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97442 ??         0:00.00 (MyProcess)

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When a process remains in the process table as this process has, then you need to kill its parent process. First, find the parent process PID: Then run for whatever the result is. (Give it a chance to die cleanly, first.) The traditional Unix design…

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