Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:30:46 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Robert Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? Message-ID: <19990811183046.A1967@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <s7b08646.002@usgs.gov>; from Robert Sowders on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:06:02PM -0700 References: <s7b08646.002@usgs.gov>
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kill -9 won't work. Zombie processes cannot be killed. Their address spaces have been deallocated so they can't get any signals. You shouldn't worry about zombies. They are harmless and the only bothersome thing is that they appear on the output from ps. They'll go away when you reboot. regards, -Oscar On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Robert Sowders wrote: > Did you try kill -9 7991? > > >>> Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> 8/8/99 12:39:51 PM >>> > hello, > I have 2 processes and I am not able to kill them > what is the problem? I have heard about the zombie processes > are these that kind of processes? (well I do not have any clue > about what is a zombie process. Where can I learn it from?) > > root 7991 0.0 0.0 45044 0 p1- D<E - 0:00.00 (pico) > root 8026 0.0 0.0 40088 0 p0- DE - 0:00.00 (ee) > > Evren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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