Killing child processes quickly

From: "AN O'Nymous" <a_n_onymous80@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 1 Mar 2006 02:11:32 -0800

I've noticed it takes some time for the "kill -9 $PID" command to kill
the child processes of $PID.

What causes this latency, and is there a quicker way to kill all child
processes?

Thanks.

.

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