[PLUG] How to kill firefox.bin
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Oct 7 21:25:53 UTC 2007
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> System Monitor shows firefox.bin running as a zombie.
Zombies can't be killed. They're left over when a parent process dies and
leaves orphaned child processes.
If you've run -- as root -- 'kill -9 firefox.bin', you've done as much as
you can without rebooting to clear away the zombies. There may be another
thread or two still open.
Rich
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