I sometimes have the situation where I am left with some stuck processes from previous sessions. I'm sure this could be done better by the application, but it's not in this case. I therefore have the following command line (bash on Solaris) that solves my problem:
$ ps -ef | grep {myuserid} | grep {procname in ps} | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs -l1 kill -9
Might be of use for anybody out there.
