how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Arthur Bela <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I tried to:
>
> kill -9 3341
>
> but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\
>
> I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a
> couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just
> freezez
>
> I tried to log out, and log in, when i log back, it's still there :O
> only when i reboot my pc...only then it will dissapear..
>
>
The Z is in the S column means its a zombie, which I believe is unkillable
using kill on that specific rocess. You'd have to kill, or restart the
parent process, to get rid of it.


-- 
Hal
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