Hi All

I need help, how can i kill zombies instead of rebooting the system.
Regards

System: sna Tue Apr 5 17:50:23 2005

Load averages: 0.05, 0.15, 0.22

168 processes: 157 sleeping, 5 running, 6 zombies

Cpu states:

CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS

0 0.05 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 99.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

1 0.05 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 99.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

--- ---- - - - - - - - -----

avg 0.05 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 99.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%



Memory: 473796K (87484K) real, 322940K (78680K) virtual, 2442524K free Page# 1/

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zombies are already dead. To make them go away, kill their parent process (which really should be reaping its dead children). This will make init inherit the zombies and init will reap them.

How do you find the process id for the zombie... I used TOP and it doesn't show up there?

You might not have any zombies to find. I would do a "ps -el". The second field will be Z if a process is a zombie.

Here is an entry when I do a ps -el......

1 Z 0 25283 2552 0 178 20 4be88940 0 - ? 0:00 <defunct>

should I do a kill on 25283?

What I'm really trying to do is find a process that might be stuck in a loop or might be considered a process hog. Do you have any suggestions of how to find such processes and kill them?

Thanks,
-Tim

See my first post in this thread.