On 11/28/2005 2:00 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> 
>> and then kill -9 the process(s).
> 
> kill -9 is a "rude" way to kill processes.  a normal TERM signal  
> should be sufficient and gives slon time to cleanup after itself.
> 
> kill -9 should be the method of last resort to kill any process.

I do agree that -9 is a bad habit. Although in the case of slon, not 
much harm will be done as all work is covered by transactions in the 
corresponding DB connections and killing slon the rude way will simply 
rollback.


Jan

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