On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, yogeshwar sonawane <yogyas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > If a process is stuck and in defunct state, how to kill it ? > Finally, we had to reboot the node. Aren't defunct processes already killed and just waiting for their parents to pick up their state ? > We faced such problem and kill -9 pid was not working. Obviously killing a dead person :-) > > any other way out ? IIRC init used to do the cleanups for all such processes. Thanks - Manish > > Thanks, > Yogeshwar > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
