On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Paul Sack wrote:

> How do I kill zombie processes?
> ps -aux reports:
> ...
> root  350     0.0     0.0     0       0       ?       Z       21:06   0:00    (sh 
><zombie>)
> ...
> 
> i tried kill -9 350 as root and it doesn't kill it. or should i just
> ignore it as it is taking no proc time or memory.

   You need to wait until the parent process cleans up after it's dead
children, or kill the parent process.

   Adam

   

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