Re: [SLUG] Killing D-state and zombie processes

[Andrew Morton]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Ok, netscape has crashed again, this time hitting d-state, and refusing
> to die.  I tried restarting it twice before doing a 'ps ax', and
> realising what it was doing.

A defunct process is sitting there waiting for its parent to reap its
exit code.  If the parent has screwed up then it'll sit there
indefinitely.

Do a 'ps jax' and look for netscape's parent (PPID) and kill that.  Or
use ktop for your graphical process viewer.  It has a cute tree view.
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