[SunHELP] can't kill it!

[Rob Staab]

You have what is known as a zombie process. It's parent has died and has not
properly passed signally control to it's child. I've seen some people be
able to dicker with the /proc filesystem to rid themselves of this, but
other than a reboot, there's no guarenteed what to kill it.

- Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:50 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] can't kill it!
>
>
> check this out:
>
> [root at hudson /]# ps -ef | grep 11010
>     root 11010     1  0 10:45:53 ?        8:51
> /usr/java//bin/sparc/native_threads/java
> -classpath:/db01/macknet/parts/dev/cl
> [root at hudson /]# kill -9 11010
> [root at hudson /]# ps -ef | grep 11010
>     root 11010     1  0 10:45:53 ?        8:51
> /usr/java//bin/sparc/native_threads/java
> -classpath:/db01/macknet/parts/dev/cl
> [root at hudson /]#
>
> doesn't matter how many times we try to kill it, it refuses to die.
>
> has anyone else seen this?  how do i get rid of it without rebooting the
> machine?
>
> thanks,
>
> -brian
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