Killing zombie processes in Linux.

2 years ago
Isabella Edwards
1 minute

To kill zombie processes in Linux, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the terminal window.
  2. Use the following command to find the PID (Process ID) of zombie processes:
  3. List all processes and then filter out only the ones that are in a zombie state.
  4. Find the PID of the zombie process in the output result.
  5. Kill zombie processes using the following command:
  6. Terminate the process with PID using the command kill -9.

Please note that the command “kill -9” is used to forcefully terminate a process, so please make sure there are no other important processes running before using this command.

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