lhunath 1244710683 learn SIGKILL is exactly the same as SIGTERM with that difference that it doesn't invoke a process' signal handlers. You should *never* use it unless you *know* the process is bugging out in its signal handler. lhunath 1244710694 forget lhunath 1244710721 learn SIGKILL is exactly the same as SIGTERM except that it doesn't invoke the process' signal handlers. You should *never* use it unless you *know* the process is bugging out in its signal handler. Stummi 1448871470 forget Stummi 1448871473 learn SIGKILL is exactly the same as SIGTERM except that it doesn't invoke the process' signal handlers. You should *never* use it unless you *know* the process is bugging out in its signal handler. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/690631