Killing Zombie Processes on Linux

You can't kill zombie processes by sending them "kill -9″ directly. Because zombies are already dead! So its better to kill their "parent" process, unless inits init process. Run following command… ps -el | grep Z Look for PPID F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 5 Z 0 2756 2755 0 80 0 - 0 exit ? 00:00:00 php-fpm If PPID is not 1 then you are lucky. You can kill parent process by running following command: kill -9 2755 Thats it!     -- This Post Killing Zombie Processes on Linux is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: Twitter is Systematically Killing 3rd Party Apps Google Chrome for Mac and Linux Create Your Own Custom Linux OS Easily Fix File Permission on Linux/Mac Server

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