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Force reaping of java zombie processes on OS X 10.7

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Problem

I have CrashPlan running on my MacBook Pro, and it went a little haywire. Essentially, it caused a fork bomb. Fortunately, I had an open Terminal window and was able to run this command: So the constant re-spawning has stopped. But, I still have over 900 java processes that aren't doing anything ex…

Error Output

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist

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Fix for: Force reaping of java zombie processes on OS X 10.7

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A zombie is already dead. Don't think of a process, think of it a process slot only. There is nothing to kill, so kill -9 works as well as kill -1, meaning nothing. They're waiting for the parent to reap them. If the parent doesn't for some reason, …

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