23 Apr
2024
23 Apr
'24
8:53 p.m.
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
It seems to me that the mysterious w is not any one
process, but rather a
kind of process that has become a zombie. Otherwise, there could not be,
as sometimes happens, half a dozen processes named w.
you find a zombie with ps auxwww | grep 'Z'
and it is usually <defunct>
A process in Linux can have one of the following states:
D = uninterruptible sleep
I = idle
R = running
S = sleeping
T = stopped by job control signal
t = stopped by debugger during trace
Z = zombie
look here https://itsfoss.com/kill-zombie-process-linux/
$ ps auxwww | grep 'Z'
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
emanoil 719868 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:22 0:00
[firefox-bin] <defunct>
emanoil 732279 0.0 0.0 6332 2192 pts/3 S+ 22:49 0:00 grep Z