Zombie Program

Minarwan rodinia at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 13:47:24 BST 2007


Thanks for this instruction Christopher (and also others who responded).
It looks like I got 1 Zombie only so it should be okay (and not always 
come up). And also I misunderstood "zombie process" from "zombie 
program" so it is not as bad as I thought. :)

Cheers
Min

Christopher Lees wrote:
> If you see a zombie program listed in top, and it's using resources, you
> can kill it by typing the following:
> 
> k
> The PID number of the zombie (the first column)
> 9
> 
> Signal 9 tells the kernel to immediately kill the program, so only use
> this after trying the default signal (Signal 15).
> 



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