Re: unkillable process ?
Re: unkillable process ?
- Subject: Re: unkillable process ?
- From: Brian Bergstrand <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:03:01 -0600
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On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Jean-Edouard BABIN wrote:
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I have an unkillable process also...
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root 7040 0.0 0.0 0 0 con- Z 1Jan70 0:00.00
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(iTunes)
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# kill 7040
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7040: No such process
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Quite stange no ? I never see that before
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I think there a problem with ipod, itunes still work corectly but ipod
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is
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not recognized in it..
That process is already dead (hence the "No such process" message). The
Z stands for zombie, meaning the process has been killed and is waiting
on the inactive process list to be reaped by its parent process. If the
parent process is gone, then then the Z process will transfer to
process 1 (init) and be reaped when it exits. Zombie processes take up
almost no resources (just a miniscule amount of memory), so I wouldn't
worry about it too much.
HTH.
Brian Bergstrand
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible,
but more mysterious. - Albert Schweitzer
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