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by servowire 4403 days ago
Don't exaggerate the impact of a kill -9. It can be safe if a homegrown application has a bug or there is a hardware failure preventing a clean reboot (like a locked IO to a disk that is no longer in order).

Sure it will mess up some things, but when management is pushing to limit the downtime of, for instance, a golden-image provisioned Linux machine, I'd kill it off no problem.

Now when we are talking a hardware box running some form of Oracle/mySQL - no, don't use -9 indeed.