On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Amar Akshat <amar.aks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Other day I was writing a small pro-active system monitoring script in > Ruby, and I forgot to close my IO pipe for pgrep command, every time I > checked my system status. > So after a day, there were more than 32,000 zombie pgrep processes. I could > only run bash commands and nothing else. > kill is a bash builtin, so you can kill a process whose pid you could get from /proc/ bash completion and issue a killall immediately after it and hope that a fork works. maybe try a few times. -- Regards Tavish Naruka _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd