Zombie processes shouldn't be a problem on your system. But on the off chance they do arise, you need to know how to take care of them. Jack Wallen shows you how.

$ kill -9 <Parent PID> Note that killing a parent process will affect all of its child processes, so a quick double check will be helpful to be safe. Alternatively, if few lying zombie processes are ...

A zombie process is just a process whose parent hasn't wait (2)ed on it yet. The process is dead; it just sits around keeping its statistics alive until the parent decides to read them.

Greetings, Lately (I presume since Java was updated but can't say for sure) I've had a problem with java applets not terminating when either their browser window is closed or the browser itself is ...

Zombie processes in the legal industry mean the inefficient use of highly capable resources. As a result of these often haphazard processes, lawyers and legal professionals may encounter: ...

Turning dozens of actors into zombies for the AMC show has definitely changed during the pandemic.

The zombie within: the idea that we don't know what we are doing, or where we are going, when we think we best know, is an old one. (The words I've just paraphrased are Emerson's.) James Atlas, in ...

Don't automate outdated processes—unless you want a zombie on your hands. getty It’s a good question. Automation saves you time and money—but only after you have invested time and money in ...

Thus, while the zombie pathogen would do more than our current medical technology can do for a beating-heart cadaver, it neither reverses brain-death nor does it properly maintain basic conditions of ...

Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II not only offered audiences unsettling experiences on screen, but the process of bringing the movies to life sounds equally as stressful, with the ...