Actually, you can kill zombies; they just won't notice that they've been killed (again).
will complete successfully telling you that the zombie hasn't been reaped yet.
will send a SIGTERM signal to the zombie and will complete successfully (assuming you have permission to send a signal to that process), but the zombie will never notice that the signal was sent nor be able to act upon that signal.
I'd like to know how to find and kill this zombie process... if you want a ps -ef just ask. I can't find its parent. It's been on 'top' for a month or so now...
note, i will not post my ps -ef, usernames in prod env. sorry.
I had a problem deleting a zombie process. It refused to be killed.
I even tried kill -9 process# but it refused.
Any other way of killing it? (7 Replies)
i'm writing small http proxy server (accept client -> connect to remote proxy server -> recv client's request -> send to remote proxy server -> get responce from remote proxy server -> send answer to client -> close connection to client and to remote proxy server) and having problems with fork().... (2 Replies)
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... (5 Replies)
Okay, I'm working within ansi C and Sun Solaris 7. I have a problem with zombies. I'm currently using the kill command to return the status of a process. How do I check for Zombie PIDs or the right function to return its PID from within a C program? (1 Reply)