Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:52:48 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, Robert Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? Message-ID: <37B37A70.A6A2F40E@charm.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990812210419.1878B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > > > kill -9 won't work. Zombie processes cannot be killed. Their address > > spaces have been deallocated so they can't get any signals. > > > > You shouldn't worry about zombies. They are harmless and the only > > bothersome thing is that they appear on the output from ps. > > They'll go away when you reboot. > > > Do they occupy the proc structures? If so, they may prevent us from > creating new processes. > > -Zhihui > Try ps -gaxl look for the parent process. If the parent is not important, your choice, killing the parent gets rid the zombie. Works for me. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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