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Re: [TCLUG:12038] killing a dead process
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:
> >From the ps manpage
> PROCESS STATE CODES
> D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
> R runnable (on run queue)
> S sleeping
> T traced or stopped
> Z a defunct ("zombie") process
> kill -9 will kill processes, but since it's in IO you have to wait till
> it wakes up.
Unfortunately, it has been in IO for a number of hours now. I think it's
quite dead. I think having that process sitting there is messing up my
Zope server. Is this a situation where I need to reboot to get rid of it?
-Tim
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