zombie

[I.Delic]

Hi,

In my top output i see that i have one zombie proces.
187 processes: 172 sleeping, 14 running, 1 zombie

How can ik find my zombie proces?

Is ther a way to find it?

thank you in advance

idriz

[Orhan Biyiklioglu · Accepted solution]

ps -ef

zombie processes are marked as defunct in the ps output.

hth

[RAC_1]

ps -ef|grep -i [d]efunc

[Artyom Voronchihin]

Hello!

man ps(1). Check PID with "Z" state in "S" column of ps output.

# ps -el | grep Z

[Geoff Wild]

ps -el |grep Z

You can attempt to kill zombies with a kill -18

Rgds...Geoff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You can't kill a 'zombie' process. As the name implies, it's already dead!

Zombies arise (no pun intended) when a parent process fails to ignore its child's termination or fails to wait on its child.

Zombie processes consume a slot in the kernel's process table but otherwise do no harm. If the parent process of the zombie is killed the only way to remove the zombie process is to reboot.

Regards!

...JRF...

[I.Delic]

thank you all

idriz

[Steve Post]

You ask how to kill a Zombie on Halloween?

You put salt in it's mouth and sew it shut. It would also help if you have Kolchak the Night Stalker with you.

Happy Halloween (one day late).