how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Varsha Jaikumar]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Varsha Jaikumar <var2424 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> >On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, 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..
>> >
>> >Is there a way to kill that process?
>>
>
> I think you can refer to
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/how-to-kill-zombie-process-592732/
> .
> Hope it helps.
>
And use *ps axl* to know all the processes (and their pids) running under
the current UID as well as their ppids. It's easier to know the ppid of the
process you are trying to kill.

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Varsha Jaikumar
Computer Science & Engineering (4th year)
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Blog: http://varshamyspace.blogspot.com/
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