From: Dilip M (dilipm_79@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 06:15:03 EDT
Hi,
Thanks to.......
Ozgur C. Demir
Lieven Marchand
Martin Schmitt
Russell_C_Page
Johan Hartzenberg
Nathan.Jeffrey
Mike's List
Nathan.Jeffrey
Richard.Skelton
& *.*
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My QUESTION WAS
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i managers,
I'm trying to kill 'defunc' process,by giving a signal 9 but it
fails!!
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# ps -ef|egrep 'PPID|defunc'
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dilipm 28691 1 0 0:00 <defunct>
root 28582 28388 0 12:11:10 pts/10 0:00 egrep PPID|defunc
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# kill -9 28691
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# ps -ef|egrep 'PPID|defunc'
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dilipm 28691 1 0 0:00 <defunct>
root 28586 28388 0 12:11:50 pts/10 0:00 egrep PPID|defunc
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ANSWER +
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As all suggested we have to kill -09 <defunc-PPID> (Parent Pid) to get rid of
defunc process.
As we see here the PPID is '1' , that is non other than init process,we have to
kill init.that in turn makes system reboot :((
Not advisable to do this on Production box.As all said,there is no big problem
with a few defunct processes as they only use a small amount of system resources.
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