Re: how to kill defunct process ?

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init will cleanup all the  processes in orphan state.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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


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> Yogeshwar
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