27 Apr
2024
27 Apr
'24
11:14 a.m.
On Sat April 27 2024 10:44:36 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Then I searched for these zombies by PID, then tried
to remove them with
kill -9 <PID #>
... and nothing happened. According to top, all 17 were still enjoying
their undead life, and ignored my commands to go away.
Zombies are already dead. Killing them does nothing. They will remain
zombies until one of three events:
(1) linux shutdown
(2) parent collects them
(3) parent dies
When the parent dies they are collected by pid 1 instead.