Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working Message-ID: <AANLkTinguZnvQTeA-SCiFqjGSIzejKaaf7_MPdqryN0p@mail.gmail.com>
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Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). This is often caused by me killing the process using kill -15 or kill -3 or kill -9. What can I do to determine why processes are not getting killed by kill -9? % ps -o ppid -o comm|grep defunct|cut -d ' ' -f 1 |xargs kill -9 typically gets rid of them (by killing their parent) -- Eitan Adler
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