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Originally Posted by
ygemici
This is pointless. A defunct process as its names implies is dead. Being dead, it cannot be killed "more", even with "-9". Also, a dead process uses no resources (RAM, CPU, I/O ...) so isn't really an issue per se , unless there are thousands or more, by polluting ps output and filling the process table.
The fact there are defunct processes is however exhibiting a bug or anomaly with their parent processes.