kill the zombie processes

Kövesdán Gábor gabor.kovesdan at t-hosting.hu
Sat Sep 3 06:14:36 PDT 2005


Akhthar Parvez K wrote:

>HI all,
>
>Is there any way to kill the zombie processes in FreeBSD other than 
>rebooting the server. Thanks
>
>  
>
Look for the pid number in the output of "ps aux", and issue "kill -KILL 
pid".
Normally kill sends a SIGTERM signal but if You specify the -KILL option 
it sends the SIGKILL signal.

Cheers,

Gabor Kovesdan


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