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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, October 28, 2002 3:50:24 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, October 26, 2002 1:30:08 pm | by SamCannell | Revert |
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2. An UnDead creature that feeds on the brains of the living. See also: ZombieHuntingForDummies
-3. On a [unix
] system, a [process
] that has called exit(), but whose parent process has not yet called the wait() function to be notified of its termination.
+3. On a [Unix
] system, a [Process
] that has called exit(3
), but whose parent process has not yet called the wait() function to be notified of its termination.
-Note that although zombie processes will show up in [
ps]
and [
top]
, the only resource they use is an entry in the process table; they cannot be allocated memory or CPU time.
+Note that although zombie processes will show up in ps(1)
and top(1)
, the only resource they use is an entry in the process table; they cannot be allocated memory or CPU time.
The only way to get rid of a zombie process is to either kill the parent process, or convince it to call wait().
Pressing the i key in top will tell it not to display idle and zombie processes.
-Want to know more? Have a look at the manpages for ps, top and wait.
+Want to know more? Have a look at ZombieProcess or
the manpages for ps(1)
, top(1)
and wait(2)
.
