Zombie tasks

[paralis]

When running the command 'top' on a shell, I may see, sometimes, one or more zombie tasks. The info is given as a number 'x Zombie'.
Is there a way to list or identify those zombie tasks in order to 'kill' them ?

Thanks

[Marlin]

Re: Zombie tasks

Read this link. You will find it enlightning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process

[paralis]

Re: Zombie tasks

Thank you for your link.
It is enlightning and I learned many things but still don't know how to identify zombies tasks.

ps -e

doesn't show any process with the 'z' mark when

top

still shows 1 zombie...

[Snowhog]

Re: Zombie tasks

"Zombies," "dead parents," "orphans" and "adoptions." Who knew that Linux had so much familial activitiy!!

[paralis]

Re: Zombie tasks

Playing with top, I finally found my zombie process specifying the user for the listed tasks with 'u'.
I find quite weird that 'top' gives the zombie info on top along with some other info so that is something important and however there is no way (or none that I know) to list directly and right away the zombie tasks within top to be able to kill them.
Just a thought anyway.

[Marlin]

Re: Zombie tasks

Maybe this is what you are looking for.

"ps -eo state,pid,ppid,start,euid,euser,args|grep ^Z"