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  • Have you tried kill -9? Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 19:31
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    @Jesse_b thats -SIGKILL at kill -l :) Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 19:33
  • Is it running in it's own PGID or is it still under the PGID of your script? If the latter, have you tried to kill -9 the whole process group? Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 19:37
  • Can you strace it to maybe see what it's doing? Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 19:41
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    Is this an epidemic? If many people are having the same problem all of a sudden, maybe a recent kernel upgrade is buggy? (Unlikely though to have the same bug on RHEL and Ubuntu as they use different kernel versions.) Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 23:25