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Operating Systems Linux zombie process Post 302179219 by niral on Thursday 27th of March 2008 08:36:32 AM
Old 03-27-2008
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Hi,

Use Normal ps command.

# ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z

Z 4104
Z 5320
Z 2945

To kill a zombie

# kill -9 4104

Sometimes zombie cannot be killed so the solution is to kill the parent process.
 

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KILL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KILL(1)

NAME
kill, broke - print commands to kill processes SYNOPSIS
kill name broke DESCRIPTION
Kill prints commands that will cause all processes called name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Use the send command of 81/2(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands. Kill suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes. Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the Broken state and owned by the current user to go away. When a process dies because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state to allow examination with a debugger. Executing the commands printed by broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes. SOURCE
/rc/bin/kill /rc/bin/broke SEE ALSO
ps(1), stop(1), proc(3) KILL(1)
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