a zombie process usually comes from a parent process that called that process, and the child process has finished and the parent didn't pick it up yet ('usually poor programming is the reason'), try to issue ps -e -l and look for the parent process of that zombie (PPID), try to stop it. and that Zombie had dug his way to the grave.

On 9/8/05, Yaman Saqqa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I know and seen, if the state of the process is Z (check
with ps) then reboot is the only way. Any body has had a different
experience?

On 9/7/05, Husam Habannakeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> any idea how to kill all <defunct> processes belonging
> to a user in my system
> I am locked out now because I reached the maximum
> number of processes allowed per user (512)and I cant
> open2 a telnet session
> I have a the root user
>
> and what if the same thing happened with the root user
> ?
>
> unfortunately reboot is not an option
>
> AIX 5.2 I know its not a Linux but its the same
> concept
>
> Husam Habannakeh
> +962 777 656086
> Dubai-UAE
>
>
>
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