Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:42:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Woodchuck" <djv@bedford.net> To: randyk@ccsales.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, randyk@ccsales.com Subject: Re: Zombie Processes Message-ID: <199812100742.CAA08273@castor.chuck> In-Reply-To: <19981207121245.09620@ccsales.com> from randyk at "Dec 7, 98 12:12:45 pm"
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randyk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that sendmail misbehaves when there are zombie processes and that
> it is not easy to get rid of these processes:
>
> 2118 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail)
> 3356 ?? Ss 0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail)
> 3357 ?? S 0:00.18 sendmail: LAA01821: from queue (sendmail)
> 5509 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail)
> 12905 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail)
> 14306 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail)
> 27086 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail)
> 3379 p1 R+ 0:00.00 grep sendmail
>
> kill -9 does not work.
>
> Does anyone know how to deal with these without rebooting?
>
>
do ps -jax to identify the parent processes. Then kill the parent.
Dave
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