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10-31-2021, 08:27 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,395 Rep:	LXer: How to kill a zombie process on Linux Published at LXer: Happy Halloween Open SOURCE-rers!Here's a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we've had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that?read more Read More...

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