topic Re: zombies in Operating System - HP-UX

zombies

Stoicho Valkov — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:32:34 GMT

Hi,
I want a consultation about the processes "zombies" when I run the top command. These processes are with STATE "zomb", SIZE 0k and COMMAND "gosh". Are they damaging and how can I stop them, because the kill command doesn't kill them.

Re: zombies

Alex Glennie — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:38:29 GMT

try here

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x1899afe90f1cd71190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: zombies

Jerome Baron — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:55:11 GMT

Hi,

zombies proccess are ine some case rattach to init. The only way to kill them is a reboot.

Regards,
Jerome

Re: zombies

Yogeeraj_1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:30:54 GMT

hi,

also see the URL below which describes:
How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere?

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-13.html

hth
Yogeeraj

Re: zombies

Sunil Sharma_1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 08:13:33 GMT

Hi,
Zombie, it's a special stat of process in Unix, in this the parent of process is not exisist and init is not able to clam ownership.

only reboot can kill these processes

Sunil

Re: zombies

Juan Manuel López — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 08:19:56 GMT

I am sorry so the only way to kill the Zombies process is rebooting the machine, because some of them are directly to init and there are not other way to free them.

I hope this help you.

Juanma.