init will cleanup all the  processes in orphan state.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Manish Katiyar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, yogeshwar sonawane <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If a process is stuck and in defunct state, how to kill it ?
>
> > Finally, we had to reboot the node.
>
> Aren't defunct processes already killed and just waiting for their
> parents to pick up their state ?
>
> > We faced such problem and kill -9 pid was not working.
> Obviously killing a dead person :-)
> >
> > any other way out ?
>
> IIRC init used to do the cleanups for all such processes.
>
> Thanks -
> Manish
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yogeshwar
> >
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