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On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 7:22 am, David H. Askew wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:34, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+
> > year old dad and delivered it the day before Thanksgiving. Believe it or
> > not, he's now got 16 days uptime and tells me he hasn't had any need at
> > all to turn on his old Windows box! Evolution, Mozilla and Open Office
> > seem to be enough to make his day fly by. Who says the Linux desktop
> > isn't here? ;-)
> >
> > Anyway, one thing I see on his machine that I don't see on any of my
> > Gentoo boxes is a process listed in 'top' as
> >
> > netstat <defunct>
> >
> > I presume I can just kill it? (What is a 'defunct' process anyway?)
> >
> > Any idea what might cause this to get started, or how to trace down what
> > did start it originally.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mark
> >
> i noticed these weird process(es) myself the other day. I generally have
> 2 on my system it seems, one as a child process for mozilla, and the
> other for evolution. Not sure where they from, but I'm pretty sure it
> is a new occurrence.
A defunct process is a zombied process. Sometimes you can kill it directly,
other's you need to issue a 'kill -9 <pid>' command to kill it. More often
than not I tend to find that I need to do a 'pstree', discover the parent
process, and kill that. In turn it kills the child <defunct> process too.
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Mark
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