On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:00:37PM -0400, Bruce Schreiber wrote:
> As can be seen, they are infrequent, but they are annoying. Two questions:
> 1) short of rebooting, how do you get rid of a zombie (you can't kill
> them, hence the name).
zombies go away automatically once their parent process retreives their exit
status (using a wait()-like syscall).
If you get zombies, the problem is with the parent, not the process that
beceme a zombie.
Kill the parent process; init(8) will inherit the zombies and reap them.
> 2) Any inkling as to what may be causing these zombies?
You could strace the parent process of the zombies to see what is keeping it
from reaping them.
Andras
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