zombies

[Stoicho Valkov]

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.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

try here

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

[Jerome Baron]

Hi,

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

Regards,
Jerome

[Yogeeraj_1]

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

[Sunil Sharma_1]

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

[Juan Manuel López]

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.