Zombie Processes
Geoffrey Kransdorf
geoffrey at netapp.com
Mon Oct 4 03:23:18 UTC 2004
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 19:13, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
>>
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I have several zombie processes but don't know how to determine who
>>>> > they belong to. I have 3 each of [c++filt] and
>>
>>> [addr2line]. They won't kill.
>>
>>>> >
>>>> > TIA
>>
>>> Have you tried Kill -9 ?
>>>
>
> Hello,
>
> Yes, it didn't kill it (them). I'd like to find out whats causing them as
> well. Has to be something broken. I can reboot and they are there as fast
> as I can login and do a ps ax.
>
You can't kill a Zombie process--it's already dead (hence the cute
name). You need to identify the parent process that's spawning them and
kill that, after which they will get an init 8 and exit.
Try a ps -AT (all processes, threaded), to see if you can figure out the
parent that's spawning them.
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