Jun 5, 2013 · I launched my program in the foreground (a daemon program), and then I killed it with kill -9, but I get a zombie remaining and I m not able to kill it with kill -9. How to kill a …

Jan 7, 2017 · The zombie isn't occupying any significant memory or resources, it's (effectively) only an exit status waiting to be delivered. An orphan is a live, running process just like any …

Dec 26, 2017 · For Linux "defunct" and "zombie" processes are the same. From man ps: Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because …

I'v some questions about zombie processes what the benefits from zombie process concept? know that the kernel keeps (PID,termination status, resource usage information) for zombie …

May 7, 2013 · This information is what a zombie process is and it's a critical part of how process management works on Unix/Linux. Zombie processes allow the parent to be guaranteed to be …

Mar 20, 2017 · A zombie process consumes only the entry in the process table. The kernel maintains it to allow for the parent process' wait (2) system call (and family) to be aware that …

Apr 23, 2013 · Are you asking why the concept of a zombie process was introduced in Unix? As it stands, the only answer to your question that I see is "because that's how zombie processes …

Aug 7, 2014 · I am interested in creating a zombie process. To my understanding, zombie process happens when the parent process exits before the children process. However, I tried to …

Apr 14, 2025 · When I use the method of java.lang.Process to execute a command, if there is an unexpected situation, such as executing 'cd /tmp/git && git clone xxxx', the parent directory is …

Nov 8, 2016 · nvidia-smi screenshot The process with PID 14420 is a zombie process and its parent id is 1(init). I want to clear 4436MiB memory occupied by this zombie process without …