RE: Killing Zombie process!

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@fmr.com

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:33 PM
To: debu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Cc: smitha rao
Subject: Re: Killing Zombie process!

On 22Oct2007 22:46, debu <debajit_kataki@rediffmail.com> 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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