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To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>,
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Subject: Re: processes cant be killed?
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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


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