Right now I have 2 runaway or locked processes on the web server...

Here's what I did:

SSH in to my webserver (linux), type:

Now, how do I know which one is the runaway process? Is it anything with more than 00:00:00 in the line?

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First of all, make sure that you are root. You most likely can't kill the process unless you are root.

Next, the command should be:
ps -xa

This should list *all* of the pids as well as the status for each.

You may want to do a man of ps as it will give you a list of the state codes.
D: uninterruptible sleep
R: runnable
S: sleeping
T: traced or stopped
Z: zombie (defunct) process.

Telling which one you want to kill is a bit more tricky. Some processes take alot of cycles and are supposed to. Things like kswapd and bdflush, as well as kdm take alot of cycles. Also, killing a parent will take down all of the child processes as well, so use it with caution.

Hope this helps...

Oh Yeah... found that out just as soon as I finished posting this and actually trying it...

Thanks for the confirmation / correction though.

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