Zombie Processes

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kedakeda
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in macOS edited January 2014
Whats up w/this?







I get this on several X Macs. Is something wrong? Why so many Zombie processes?



What can I do to get rid of them?



[ 04-23-2002: Message edited by: Keda ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    cdhostagecdhostage Posts: 1,038member
    What's a zombie process and why is it on your computer?
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    arakageetaarakageeta Posts: 141member
    brains... braaaains!!!!!



    <a href="http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?zombie+process"; target="_blank">http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?zombie+process</a>;
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    So, can I manually notify the parent the the zombie should be killed?
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    alfredhalfredh Posts: 29member
    I don't think you can turn a zombie back to a child process. For whatever reason the child process lost its parent and turned into a zombie.

    A kill -9 should get rid of it though.
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