On Monday 07 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: > When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command > produces following output: > > UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD > ... > ... > marek 5788 5765 12 50526 73088 0 09:02 ? 00:13:42 > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin > marek 5869 5788 0 0 0 0 09:02 ? > 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct> > > Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I > close firefox, the zombie disappears too. > Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?
Two things: 1. Please don't hijack threads. It's very rude. 2. You can't get rid of zombies. They are unkillable, hence the name. A zombie is a process whose immediate parent died without cleaning up it's children's PIDs. They end up being attached to the another parent further up the chain, end consume no resources except taking up one PID. There's a kernel thread that runs every 5 minutes or so sweeping them out of the way. So you can ignore zombies. The above might be wrong, it's been a while since I verified it for myself; so I paraphrased the Red Hat 4 training materials. That is for 2.6.9, it might be different these days in mainline kernels alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
