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Re: Zombie processes
Hi,
> I'm running my system for just four days non-stop, and I already have two
> zombie processes, both of them are modprobe. Here's one of them:
> 20887 ? Z 0:00 (modprobe <zombie>)
> Why do they appear? How can I kill them? kill and kill -9 don't seem to
> help.
Zombie processes is the left over of a dead process, the idea is that the
parent process can get information from those zombie processes. You can
find it in any type of UNIX machine, and in any case it should bother you
too much, they should die with their parent.
Sagi S.
...This system will self-destruct in five minutes.
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