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May 092009
 

How do I find out zombie process?

Answer

Use this command

# ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z

It will give something like the following (The number is the zombie's pid)

Z 5938
Z 5485
...

Then we can kill it by using the pid

# kill -9 5938