On 2005-12-03, A.Teterkin <A.Teterkin@hostco.ru> wrote:

> By the way... Is there any means to get rid of that zombies besides
> rebooting the system?

Yes, you can exit the application that is failing to wait() for its
child processes. By doing that, those child processes (the zombies)
get reparented to init. init will periodically wait() in case a zombie
gets reparented to it. This will get rid of the zombies.

However, this does mean that you have to quit the problematic
application.

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Jurjen Oskam