Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:14:40 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id> Cc: FBSDQ <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How kill Zombie Message-ID: <20020824061440.GB73646@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020824050202.GA12025@kumprang.kumprang.or.id> References: <20020824050202.GA12025@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:02:02PM +0700, budsz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I use top command, so I see "1 zombie":
>
> last pid: 12424; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+00:34:35 11:54:47
> 73 processes: 1 running, 71 sleeping, 1 zombie
> Mem: 33M Active, 9760K Inact, 12M Wired, 3548K Cache, 14M Buf, 1596K Free
> Swap: 500M Total, 1888K Used, 498M Free
>
> I use ps aux :
>
> root 12313 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 11:54AM 0:00.00 (sh)
>
> How to kill zombie proses..?, this happen when I try to install amavis
> scanner virus..? but if I kill my qmail zombie doesn't appeare.
You can't "kill" a zombie process. It's parent process is responsible
for cleaning it up. Your choices are:
1. kill the parent process.
2. fix the code in the parent process to clean up after itself.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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