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Subject: Re: kill the zombie processes
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Akhthar Parvez K <akhthar@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any way to kill the zombie processes in FreeBSD other than 
> rebooting the server. Thanks

You are not supposed to be having long-lived zombie processes.  
Better than killing them would be to avoid having them in the 
first place.  What are they?