Kill a zombie
by lattimro from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6F01Q)
Hi Folks,
I have one VM which failed to respond and left behind a zombie process. Restarted the VM and stopped properly but zombie persisted. As you can see from htop (attached) the zombie child is still is using 31.6% and MEM USAGE shows 3.7G/7.64G.
What else I did:
- followed lots of literature on this topic :)
- I killed all <username> processes:Code:pkill -U <username>- I logout and login
Some sources claim zombies can't be kill but I would like to listen your opinions on this before I reboot the machine.
Code:/home/brad# ps -ef|grep -i defunct
brad 101322 1 59 Sep21 ? 07:48:10 [VirtualBoxVM] <defunct>
root 808905 128336 0 10:51 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i defunctand
Code:kill -9 101322 101352
Thanks!
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I have one VM which failed to respond and left behind a zombie process. Restarted the VM and stopped properly but zombie persisted. As you can see from htop (attached) the zombie child is still is using 31.6% and MEM USAGE shows 3.7G/7.64G.
What else I did:
- followed lots of literature on this topic :)
- I killed all <username> processes:Code:pkill -U <username>- I logout and login
Some sources claim zombies can't be kill but I would like to listen your opinions on this before I reboot the machine.
Code:/home/brad# ps -ef|grep -i defunct
brad 101322 1 59 Sep21 ? 07:48:10 [VirtualBoxVM] <defunct>
root 808905 128336 0 10:51 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i defunctand
Code:kill -9 101322 101352
Thanks!
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