How to view the hung process

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

I am using linux and HP-UX. in that how to view the hung process.

[Suraj K Sankari · Accepted solution]

Hi Senthil,

Hung process are called "defunct" or "zombie" process, you can find using

#ps -aef | grep zombie
or
#ps -aef | grep defunct

for detail information see the below link

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1032.htm

Suraj

[Pete Randall]

That's a pretty wide-open question. Which system has the "hung" process: linux or HP-UX? Is it a particular process that is hung? Or the whole system? Do you know which process it is or are you trying to find out which one?

We really need more info to go on.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

After seeing the "defunct" process comment, I have more questions. Why would a defunct process be the only type of process that might be considered hung?


Pete

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

I want to find defunct and zombie process.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> I want to find defunct and zombie process.

Then:

# ps -ef|grep defunct

You can also examine the state colunm in a 'ps' output looking for "Z" whcih denotes a dead (defunct, or zombie) process.

# UNIX95= ps -e -o pid,state,comm

Regards!

...JRF...

[TTr]

In many cases a process is hung as far as an admin or an end user is concerned but as far as the OS is concerned the process is runing fine. Other than defunct and zombie there is no characterization for a hung process. A process can be in various states such as running, sleeping, waiting for i/o, blocked on i/o, waiting on semaphores etc. In many cases we consider these processes hung but the UNIX kernel does not. So it is up to us to know if what a process is doing is really valid or not. Checking for that is not always easy or trivial and it involves looking at process logs if they exist or in a case of a database there are additional tools to use.

[Dennis Handly]

>I want to find defunct and zombie process.

Zombie processes aren't hung, they are dead. It is the zombie master that is keeping them around due to sloppy programming.