Re: how to kill defunct process ?
init will cleanup all the processes in orphan state. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, yogeshwar sonawane > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > If a process is stuck and in defunct state, how to kill it ? > > > Finally, we had to reboot the node. > > Aren't defunct processes already killed and just waiting for their > parents to pick up their state ? > > > We faced such problem and kill -9 pid was not working. > Obviously killing a dead person :-) > > > > any other way out ? > > IIRC init used to do the cleanups for all such processes. > > Thanks - > Manish > > > > > > Thanks, > > Yogeshwar > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
Re: how to kill defunct process ?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, yogeshwar sonawane wrote: > Hi all, > > If a process is stuck and in defunct state, how to kill it ? > Finally, we had to reboot the node. Aren't defunct processes already killed and just waiting for their parents to pick up their state ? > We faced such problem and kill -9 pid was not working. Obviously killing a dead person :-) > > any other way out ? IIRC init used to do the cleanups for all such processes. Thanks - Manish > > Thanks, > Yogeshwar > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
how to kill defunct process ?
Hi all, If a process is stuck and in defunct state, how to kill it ? We faced such problem and kill -9 pid was not working. Finally, we had to reboot the node. any other way out ? Thanks, Yogeshwar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
