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 > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
