You can't kill zombies because they are already dead. If a zombie is sucking up CPU usage. something isn't right ... it should only be a place holder in the process table. The purpose of a zombie is to allow the parent process to know a process exited.
The typical way for to get rid of zombies is have the parent perform a wait(2) on the process (or for the parent process to exit). Back in the olden days, the understood way to launch a process that wouldn't create a zombie was to fork(2) twice so it was owned by init. Now there are better ways to go about this. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Killing zombies > > Does anyone have, or know of a script/program setup that I can get that > will kill zombied server processes? > > I don't get them often, but the fact that it takes 99% cpu usage is > enough to get a fix. With more people getting servers that dont quite > know what they are doing, it would be very helpful > > Thanks > Crash > > >
