Zombie process comes back from dead!

[John Ferrara]

I have a zombie process that keeps coming back even after several reboots. Of course, I made a futile effort to kill -9 & kill -11 w/ no results. The process seems to be part of PerfView and is using some CPU. The server is a K220 w/ 10.20 U.

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
1 ? 1692 root 179 20 0K 0K zomb 0:00 2.94 2.93 agdbserver

John

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

Hmm, sounds like something is causing it to "top" itself.


You may want to try tis:

stop mwa
copy the files in /var/opt/perf/datafiles off to a backup directory or tape
remove /var/opt/perf/datafiles/log*
remove /var/opt/perf/status*

restart mwa and check for the same process becoming a zombie.

If this works, you had a corrupted file in the MWA stuff.

HTH

[John Ferrara]

Thanks, that did the trick.

John