Opera browser at 90%+ Useage / Won't "Die"

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03-04-2009
TheAlmightyOS

Opera browser at 90%+ Useage / Won't "Die"

This has been happening a lot lately. While online checking some websites Opera will sometimes become unresponsive. When this happens, CPU usage goes though he roof. Well, there is an easy way to stop a runaway process.

HTML Code:

kill (offending pid)

But there seems to be a problem with that. When I use that command it accepts it with no output like you would expect. But when I run top opera is still at 90%+ usage and still very much 'alive'.

so I got a zombie process (for lack of better terms) and not a shotgun in sight. Any ideas?
03-04-2009
dijetlo

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Originally Posted by TheAlmightyOS

This has been happening a lot lately. While online checking some websites Opera will sometimes become unresponsive. When this happens, CPU usage goes though he roof. Well, there is an easy way to stop a runaway process.

HTML Code:

kill (offending pid)

But there seems to be a problem with that. When I use that command it accepts it with no output like you would expect. But when I run top opera is still at 90%+ usage and still very much 'alive'.

so I got a zombie process (for lack of better terms) and not a shotgun in sight. Any ideas?

Are you getting a single instance of opera or is it spawning "child processes" of itself?
03-04-2009
bigtomrodney

Well the kill command asks a program to end. If that hasn't worked, use the 9 switch. Also you can use killall if you know the processname rather than searching for the PID first

Code:

kill -9 12345 killall -9 opera
03-04-2009
TheAlmightyOS

Code:

killall -9 opera

that worked like a charm.
Now that I got rid of the zombie process, any ideas why it does this in the first place?