RE: Killing Zombie process!
- From: "Broekman, Maarten" <Maarten.Broekman@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:04:01 -0400
You are correct that killing the zombie processes (kill [-9] <pid of
zombie>) won't do anything. However, if their parent process is
something other than PID 1 (init), you can (in general) get rid of the
zombie by killing the parent process. To get rid of zombies whose
parent is init, you will need to reboot.
Maarten Broekman
Email: maarten.broekman@xxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: Killing Zombie process!
On 22Oct2007 22:46, debu <debajit_kataki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Yes you can do so...
No, you cannot.
| Try this:
| ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z;
This may find them. Killing them won't do anything.
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