Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Zombie Process UNix/Linux

Hi,

Zombie process is a finished process but whose entry is still there in Process Table , to return exit status to Parent process who started it!

How to list Zombie process  :
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ps -auxZ | grep "Z"    --> short way to list Zombie processes

You can kill zombie process by killing its parent process


How to Know parent process of zombie process :
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pstree -p | grep "zombie process name"

and kill parent using

kill -9 parent process



Thank You,
have a nice day!

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