Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:07:16 +0200 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: dead processes |
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Hi Marc :)
> 4260 ? Z 0:00 [gpg <defunct>] > There are a lot of defunct processes which I can't kill. > How comes? Normal? Solution?
They are 'Zombie' processes. At some point they will be reparented to 'init' and it will get rid of them. Those processes are dead but nobody has 'wait()'ed for them. 'init' will do ASAP. The problem is if they aren't reparented to init.
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