how to kill this process?

[Mike Bird]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:13, R Kimber wrote:
> I have a process taking up 100% of CPU:
> 29477 root      25   0  7024 1516 1112 R  100  0.1  52:48.84 sh
> 
> but I don't seem to be able to kill it.  I assume its being run by cron:
> 
> 29476 ?        S      0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
> 29477 ?        Rs    49:20 /bin/sh -c    run-parts
> --report /etc/cron.hourly
> 
> I've tried -9 and -15  - is there anything I can do to kill it, or must
> I reboot?

Processes stuck in D state are sometimes unkillable but
those in R state are usually killable.  Did you issue
the kill commands as root?

--Mike Bird