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any one has any idea about killing zombie or defunct process....?

  • 1.  any one has any idea about killing zombie or defunct process....?

    Posted Thu August 21, 2008 03:46 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    hi to all,

    anyone has idea about how to kill this type process please reply me..

    root@VDEVDBMS1:/> ps -ef| grep defun
    root 5972092 29245540 0 0:00 <defunct>
    root 6017230 32301128 0 15:30:16 pts/6 0:00 grep defun
    root 29724672 1 0 0:00 <defunct>
    oracle7 31879216 3731532 0 0:00 <defunct>
    root 32497696 1753226 3 0:00 <defunct>
    root 33349886 1 0 0:00 <defunct>

    if i kill ppid "1" what will happen?

    thanks
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  • 2.  Re: any one has any idea about killing zombie or defunct process....?

    Posted Fri August 22, 2008 02:03 PM

    Originally posted by: j.gann


    best advice:
    1. do not kill PID 1
    2. tell application programmers to correct their code
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