It's essential to mention also that such process is a mere table
entry, doesn't hold up any resources. But in the case of our friend
here, it prevented him from starting other processes as it was holding
their places (due to the ulimit).
On 9/8/05, Ala'a Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > >
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