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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:30:46 -0600
From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To: Robert Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr
Subject: Re: processes cant be killed?
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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.

regards,

-Oscar

On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Robert Sowders wrote:
> Did you try kill -9 7991?
> 
> >>> Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> 8/8/99 12:39:51 PM >>>
> hello,
> I have 2 processes and I am not able to kill them
> what is the problem? I have heard about the zombie processes
> are these that kind of processes? (well I do not have any clue
> about what is a zombie process. Where can I learn it from?)
> 
> root  7991  0.0  0.0 45044    0  p1- D<E  -         0:00.00  (pico)
> root  8026  0.0  0.0 40088    0  p0- DE   -         0:00.00  (ee)
> 
> Evren
> 
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