{SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] *really* killing a process

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 10:19:12 EST


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There are some good answers in this thread. Thanks.

How can I detect a mother process (like a nested listing??)?
What mother process would be holding wine or winex as a zombie?
I'm hoping I don't have to restart my X server to get the graphics card to
become free.

/mario

On Thursday 11 March 2004 08:35, you as Steve wrote:
> On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:45 am, Eric Jahn wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 March 2004 2:11 am, you wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to kill the following processes, first with no flag and
> > > > then with - -9
> > > > They won't die. Why?
> >
> > I also have problems killing some zombie processes and the operating
> > system doesn't self clean them up either. They're not even trying to
> > access any services. This is with the 2.4 kernel, though, and perhaps
> > it's been changed by now.
>
> It's because another (mother) app is holding it in place. Kill it and the
> zombie goes.
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