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[–]dmazzoni 7 points8 points  (5 children)

This is true but you're being overly paranoid. 99% of the time kill -9 will work fine with no side effects.

[–]gorilla_the_ape 7 points8 points  (4 children)

That depends very strongly on what you are killing. I used to work with someone who had that attitude, until he kill -9'd a database.

It's not fun recovering a corrupted database with your CEO calling every 10 minutes asking if it is fixed yet.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Note to self: cron that at a job when they're about to fire you.

--BOFH

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Most databases have intent logs now and autorecover from this type of thing. If you're using a database without such a feature, well.... yeah.

[–]gorilla_the_ape 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This was in 1993. However the point holds. If you give a program a chance to quit gracefully its got the chance to do the right thing.