kill ZOMBI PROCESS

[YOGI_3]

how to kill zombi process ...in top its shwoing
PID ...wen i am tring to kill -9 PID,
its giving error that this process doenot exists..
i want to kill this process

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Bad luck...
By definition a real zombie cannot be killed...
Your only way of getting rid of it is reboot



All the best
Victor

[Pete Randall]

The only other way is to kill the parent. However, quite often the parent ends up being init and you don't want to kill that. Best way is to reboot.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

First, the classic quote: "You can't kill a zombie. It's already dead!".

If you do a 'kill ' and the error returned is that it doesn't exist then you choose the WRONG process (or the process finally died and was removed from the process table BEFORE you could touch it.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Torsten.]

Hi Yogi,

I can imagine you want, but you CAN'T kill him. He's already dead.

See e.g. this link for a explanation:

http://www.losurs.org/docs/zombies

(just one out of thousands ...)

[Geoff Wild]

On HP-UX, most Zombies will disappear - eventually...

Checking:

ps -el |grep Z

You may be able to kill by killing parent - unless as others say parent is 1.

Rgds...Geoff

[HGN]

Hi

There is no way other than rebooting the server because you cannot kill a zombie process.

Rgds

HGN

[Sandman!]

If you can't eliminate the zombies with "kill -9" then reboot the server. Sorry no other way out.

regards!

[Ranjith_5]

No Yogi..You will need a reboot. If this is happening frequently for the same application, may be it is due to that application code error.

Regards,
Syam

[Cheryl Griffin]

Interex had a program called 'kill zomb'. Anyone have experience with that? The download site is no longer available, so reboot is the only way to go.

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On a sidenote, anyone who saw Shaun of the Dead knows the way to kill a zombie is to hit them in the head.