Sunday, October 18, 2009

Effective way of killing zombie process

Here is a most effective way to find a zombie process and kill them
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Execute following command on shell

#ps -el | grep Z

this will give you the zombie process data including its Parent Process ID (PPID), which we need to take care of.
#kill -9 PPID
where PPID is the Parent Process ID you got from the previous command.
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