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An example where kill -9 can screw things up is killing a database process (e.g. MySQL, mongo, etc). Killing it with -9 will most likely lead to data corruption
by dkharrat 11y ago
An example where kill -9 can screw things up is killing a database process (e.g. MySQL, mongo, etc). Killing it with -9 will most likely lead to data corruption/loss, as the process might be in the middle of flushing to disk for example.
- ryanpetrich 11y agoAny database that can't recover from kill -9 is not worth trusting your data with.