From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 18:20:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4722414DB9 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA21117; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:18:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:05:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Robert Sowders , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? In-Reply-To: <19990811183046.A1967@fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message