Questions tagged [zombie]
A zombie process is a dead process that has no resources allocated to it, but merely has an entry in the process tree until its parent process finally reaps it and it disappears from view.
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Large number of zombie processes on Ubuntu Server 14.04
I'm using an Ubuntu 14.04 server and a few times in the last few days, MySQL has become unresponsive and I had to reboot remotely. I've been away until now so not able to have a proper look, but today ...
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Suspend/resume works exactly once
Problem:
Suspend/Resume works exactly once. Attempting to suspend a second time results in the machine hanging.
The monitor powers down to standby as it should, but the system unit fan is still ...
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Zombie process actually slowing system down ~100 fold
I was using vlc and started up another vlc which did not actually start.
System became slow. I checked top and noticed that vlc had become a zombie.
top was showing vlc to be 99-101% cpu which was ...
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How can I show only zombie processes in htop?
I would like to monitor in real time zombie process in htop?
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How to find cause of zombie process?
I have a zombie process that I am trying to investigate.
When a process dies on Linux, it isn’t all removed from memory immediately — its process descriptor stays in memory (the process descriptor ...
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Zombie process: sd_cicero, Ubuntu 16.04
When I followed the instructions in this question to find zombie processes, I found this process Z Jan02 0:00 [sd_cicero] <defunct>. When I try to find its parent process, I get this:
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Ubuntu automatically clean zombie and sleeping process
Is there a way how I can cleanup zombie process automatically? How can I clean up the zombie and sleeping process automatically?
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How to kill zombie process keeping its parent alive? [duplicate]
I am doing printing in .net core framework.
For printing every label, I start a process.
So for 100 labels, it creates 100 zombie process.
The zombie process gets removed from the process table, ...
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Bash Script to find zombie processes?
So recently I've noticed that I have a process that will randomly crash and become a zombie with a PPID of 1 (init). I've been told that the only way to fix this is to reboot the PC (or send SIGCHLD ...
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Zombie process (kill both child and parent process)
Question: I want to make sure that both child and parent process are killed and echo if successful or not. I'm new on using bash script and having issue with my output.
#!/bin/bash
for p in $(ps ...
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13 times 'zenity' with status Zombie
I have 13 times zenity with status Zombie in my system-monitor.
Could there be any virus or what else could it be?
I have read this:
What are zombie processes?
but I can't do anything with it ...
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Zombie being made from 'tail -f' cron job that grep's and launches shell script
I realize that a single zombie process like this is nothing to worry about, I just want a more professional outcome (no zombie) from my code.
My cron job calling a shell script produces a single ...
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How do I kill a 5GB init-child zombie process? [duplicate]
I'm trying not to restart every time I'm done with my game.
I've reported this issue to the DNS community a 2nd time now since I havn't played it for a while since the first time and it's still not ...
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Do zombie processes cause memory shortage? Do they get killed by the init process eventually?
I have a zombie process problem.
I read What is a <defunct> process, and why doesn't it get killed? which says
There is no harm in letting such processes be unless there are many of them. ...
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How to make one process to zombie
The question is the title, With one example please show how to make one of the process zombie between all process ?
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