On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Amar Akshat <amar.aks...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Other day I was writing a small pro-active system monitoring script in
> Ruby, and I forgot to close my IO pipe for pgrep command, every time I
> checked my system status.
> So after a day, there were more than 32,000 zombie pgrep processes. I could
> only run bash commands and nothing else.
>


kill is a bash builtin, so you can kill a process whose pid you could get
from /proc/ bash completion and issue a killall immediately after it and
hope that a fork works. maybe try a few times.

-- 
Regards
Tavish Naruka
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