zombies

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Brian Norman
Wootton<Brian.Meg at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I've about 20 zombies in my process table, can anybody remind me
> what they are and what I could/should do about them.
> ta muchly
> brian
>

You don't have to do anything. Zombies are a killed processes so they
almost don't take up any resources but they still has an entry in the
process table. You can try kill the zombie but it's not sure it will
work (as it is already dead). What program do the zombies belong to?

See more at:
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/zombies.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process

/ Jonas