identifying and killing a zombie process 2006-03-01 - By Lachele Foley (Lists)
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> You can't kill zombies. They are already "dead". They don't take up
> resources....so nothing to worry about.
This is true, but if you have a hundred of them making your process
list hard to read and want to get rid of them, you can kill or restart
the parent process (make sure doing this won't cause other trouble, of
course).
To find the parent process, check the process list ("ps -ef" or similar):
postgres 1246 1 0 Jan29 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/postmaster -p
postgres 1248 1246 0 Jan29 ? 00:00:00 postgres: stats buffe
postgres 1249 1248 0 Jan...
Here, the second "postgres" was called by the first, and the third, by
the second.
If you kill or restart process 1246, the others will go away, too.
:-) L
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