I can see several zombie processes in my computer. How can I get rid of them?
In fact, why does there exist vlc and pidgin zombies? It this a bug in Ubuntu or something I have done?
Thanks!
ps aux |grep Z
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
sammy 3236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zl heinä26 0:01 [vlc] <defunct>
sammy 4028 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zl heinä26 0:00 [vlc] <defunct>
sammy 4046 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zl heinä26 0:00 [vlc] <defunct>
sammy 4060 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zl heinä26 0:00 [vlc] <defunct>
sammy 4841 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z heinä26 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
sammy 4844 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z heinä26 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
sammy 6525 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z heinä26 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
sammy 6529 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z heinä26 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
sammy 8401 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zl heinä26 0:00 [vlc] <defunct>
sammy 13526 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 09:54 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>