kill the zombie processes

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sun Sep 4 08:34:15 PDT 2005


Akhthar Parvez K <akhthar at gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any way to kill the zombie processes in FreeBSD other than 
> rebooting the server. Thanks

You are not supposed to be having long-lived zombie processes.  
Better than killing them would be to avoid having them in the 
first place.  What are they?


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