How to stop a systemtap script?

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Issue

  • How to stop a systemtap script?
  • I tried to stop systemtap process but didn’t work neither with rmmod and rmmod -f
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod |grep -i stap
stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664    95488  2 

[root@localhost ~]# ps -ef|grep -i stap
root     21525     1  0 May13 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/systemtap/stapio -R stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664
root     28554 28329  0 06:29 pts/2    00:00:00 grep -i stap

[root@localhost ~]# rmmod stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664
ERROR: Module stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664 is in use

[root@localhost ~]# rmmod -f stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664
ERROR: Removing 'stap_59e721c77107e946d5321bc8edb4e438_30664': Resource temporarily unavailable

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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