From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 13:13: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.net (sherline.net [216.120.87.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CAE237B71C for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 31491 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2001 21:13:00 -0000 Received: from server.sherline.net (HELO server2) (216.120.87.3) by sherline.net with SMTP; 9 Mar 2001 21:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <00db01c0a8dd$b81ea9f0$035778d8@sherline.net> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" References: Subject: Re: zombies! Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:12:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >what do 'zombies' means? > > I don't know the fully definition of them, so the answer of "process which > > have ended but have not been cleared fully from the process table" might > > not be a fully correct answer... > > > > >how can i kill them? > > Find the parent process, and kill it or restart it. I know this is a really really really old subject, but I don't see why there isn't a way to remove them from the process table. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message