A zombie process is a dead process that has no resources allocated to it, but merely has an entry in the process tree until its parent process finally reaps it and it disappears from view.
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Literally 50 SH Zombie processes is system monitor
This bothers me now for a while: I have a huge list of Zombie processes whenever my system runs for a while as you can see in my gnome-system monitor. The list is so long that it is hard to find even ...
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How to find zombie process?
System information as of Fri Mar 9 19:40:01 KST 2012
System load: 0.59 Processes: 167
Usage of /home: 23.0% of 11.00GB Users logged in: 1
Swap usage: 0% ...
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How to get rid of Transmission zombie process? [closed]
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I was downloading a file over Transmission when I noticed that the Transmission window was grayed out and not responding. On clicking it, Ubuntu (10.04) asked to force-close which I did. What ...
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What are zombie processes?
With commands like top and the gui based System Monitor I can see that at the moment I have several zombie processes.
What are zombie processes?
Do they affect the performance of the system or the ...
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Bootchart zombie process udevadm
Every time I look at the logs from bootchart, I notice a process called udevadm that is mostly coloured as if it is a zombie process. It is accompanied by modprobe, wait-for-root and udevd. They ...
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Is there any way to kill a zombie process without reboot?
Is there any way to kill a zombie process without reboot?Here is how it happens:
I wanted to download a 12GB torrent.After adding the .torrent file, transmission turned into a zombie process.I tried ...
