How to kill a <defunct> process
Last update
2020-06-18
2020-06-18
«how to kill zombie processes»
<defunct> means that the process has either completed its task or has been corrupted or killed, but its child processes are still running or these parent process is monitoring its child process.
In order to termiante this kind of process you have to kill its parent process:
1 2 | # kill all parent PIDs of <defunct> processes ps -ef | grep [d]efunct | cut -b8-20 | xargs kill -9 |
Source: stackoverflow
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