On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I > do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not > related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). > > This is often caused by me killing the process using kill -15 or kill > -3 or kill -9. > > What can I do to determine why processes are not getting killed by kill -9? > > % ps -o ppid -o comm|grep defunct|cut -d ' ' -f 1 |xargs kill -9 > typically gets rid of them (by killing their parent)
That's the only way to kill zombies... You can't signal the zombie/defunct process itself, because it's gone already. But you can kill the process who spawned it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
