From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 12:09:44 EDT
I suppose that it would be possible to remove zombies by directly modifying
memory using crash or something like that, but you'd have to be desperate,
extremely knowledgeable and/or barking mad to attempt it!
They don't do any harm, other than annoy system administrators.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM
> [mailto:justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM]
> Sent: 15 August 2002 16:49
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: zombies in aix
>
>
> Is there away to get rid of zombies in AIX, by modifying the
> kernel through
> crash (aix 4) or kdb (aix 5), or maybe something from the
> command line (I
> doubt)? Just want to validate that a reboot is the only way
> to flush them
> out? thanks!.
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