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SubjectRe: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
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Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:44, DervishD wrote:

>> Then the children are reparented to 'init' and 'init' gets rid
>> of them. That's the way UNIX behaves.
>
> Unforch, I've *never* had it work that way. Any dead process I've
> ever had while running linux has only been disposable by a reboot.

Then it's either (a) not actually a zombie (perhaps stuck in D state),
or (b) its parent is still alive.

A zombie process is just an entry in the process table where the exit
status etc are stored until the parent reaps it--all other resources
(memory, FDs etc) have been released. So if your "zombie" process is
actually taking up resources (which I think you said in an earlier
post), there's something else at work.

-Doug
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