"Michael J. Maravillo" wrote:
> >From the: The Undernet #Linux Channel FAQ
> http://linuxfaq.quartz.net.nz/node106.html
> [...]
> How do I kill a zombie process?
>
> Zombies will be cleaned up if their parents die. So a zombie can
> be removed by killing the parent process of the zombie. A parent
> process can be found with ps -fauwx and so kill the parent of the
> zombie process (often a SIGHUP is all that is needed).
>
> In theory, the only processes that this will never be able to be
> applied to is the stuff like init and other stuff started by the
> kernel that you have no power over.
>
> If it is a process that seems to have no parent, kill -s SIGHUP 1
> (sending a hangup to init) will probably clean up a zombie.
>
> Otherwise just kill the parent of the zombie process and all
> should be fine again.
> [...]
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:01:01AM +0800, Emmanuel 'Manny' Amador wrote:
> > I've been having lots of trouble with zombie processes. This has been
> > happening since I started with Linux (Red Hat 5.0). Sometimes I find I
> > cannot kill some processes, even when I'm root. I use gitps -p -A to run
> > the process viewer/killer and sometimes I can't kill a zombie. I also use
> > the kill -9 command and sometimes that doesn't work. I've also tried the
> > GNOME and KDE process managers. Even then there are some processes that
> > are really persistent.
> >
> > Is there any ultimate process viewer/killer that will terminate erring
> > processes for sure?
> >
> > Also, doers anyone have any tips to minimize the occurence of zombie
> > processes? I admit I run some multimedia stuff and Netscape, which hav a
> > propensity to crash sometimes.
>
hi all,
you are not curing the cancer but extending the life of a cancer. fix/update
the erring process instead.
fooler.
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