On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:47, Richard Urwin wrote: Hmm! I got it know!
> Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent > process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely > that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the > command: > ps axgl Just like my in-laws and my nephews and nices! ;-) Their parents let them do EVERYTHING and LATER do not take the necessary procedures! Thanks GOD I don't have to kill my nephews and nices to 'restore' the 'system'! ;-))) []s Ricardo Castanho > The PPID is the PID of the parent. The PID is the PID of the process. > Search the list for the zombies (status Z), note their PPID, then > search the list for the process with that PID. > > When a process dies any child processes it still has are adopted by the > init process (PID 1). Init spends all it's time waiting for child > processes, so zombies will be quickly tidied up. > > If the parent has hung you probably want to terminate it with extreme > prejudice, so kill -KILL the parent process and the zombies will go > away. That's (as root): > kill -KILL [PID of parent] -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => 100% M$ FREE ==========================================================
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